Romantic Poetry

Question 1

Describe the era before Romantic Poetry

Answer 1

Milton. Lines were “high english”, iambic pentameter, usually very hard and unrelatable.

Question 2

Romantic Period began and ended…

Answer 2

Began in 1798 with Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. The Romantic Period ended in 1850 with the death of Wordsworth.

Question 3

What events in the time period inspired Romantic Poetry?

Answer 3

The American, the French, and the Industrial Revolution.

Question 4

Spent most of his childhood exploring country side. Visited France during the Revolution. Befriended Coleridge and worked with him. Brother and two Children died. Was made poet laureate at age 73. Died in 1850.

Answer 4

William Wordsworth.

Question 5

Was a surgeon’s apprentice, but then decided… nah

Answer 5

John Keats

Question 6

Besties with Wordsworth. Brilliant student who originally went to Cambridge. Joined the army for a while. Dreamed of cult perfect society in America. Started using opium copiously. Later became a public lecturer, and a writer for newspapers and magazines

Answer 6

Samuel Coleridge

Question 7

Wrote a pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism. Fell in love with Mary Wollstonecraft while he was married. Became buds with Lord Byron. Denied custody of his two kids. Left to Italy with Mary

Answer 7

Percy Shelley

Question 8

Uncle died and he inherited an estate. Wrote poems about countries he visited. Involved in several love affairs. Befriended Shelley and lived in Pisa with him. Travelled to Greece to fight for independence from Turkey. Regarded as a national hero in Greece later

Answer 8

Lord Byron

Question 9

Wrote: Lyrical Ballads, Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud, Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, The World Is Too Much with Us, Ode: Intimations of Immortality.

Answer 9

William Wordsworth

Question 10

Wrote: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy

Answer 10

John Keats

Question 11

Wrote: This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan

Answer 11

Samuel Coleridge

Question 12

Wrote: Ozymandias, Sonnet: England in 1819, Ode to West Wind, Ode To a Skylark, To a Dirge

Answer 12

Percy Shelley

Question 13

Wrote: She Walks in Beauty, Darkness, Apostrophe to the Ocean.

Answer 13

Lord Byron.

Question 14

5 elements of a Romantic Poem

Answer 14

Poet as subject
Non artificial Style
Nature and Poet
Imagination
Transcendentalism

Question 15

Poet as subject

Answer 15

a romantic poem is usually in first person and the poet is the subject

Question 16

Nonartificial Style

Answer 16

a romantic poem is accessible and understandable by all: common subject and language. Poems sound spontaneous and powerfully emotional

Question 17

Nature and Poet

Answer 17

nature is subject in most romantic poetry. Poet is isolated and reflective with a free imagination

Question 18

Imagination

Answer 18

Use of all faculties of the brain to create an experience more real than actual ones

Question 19

transcendentalism

Answer 19

Experience outside of human perception that we can tap into at times. Imagination is used to transcend into a mindset similar to when we were kids: wonder, magic all that jazz.