Romanticism

Question 0

2 famous early romantics

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Wordsworth, Coleridge

Question 1

The belief of revolution as threatening was held primarily by

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Early Romantics

Question 2

Belief that school squashed individuality

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Primitivism

Question 3

The radical revolution in France brought what reaction to England?

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Conservativism and fear

Question 4

Example of Gothic novel

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Jane Eyre

Question 5

Fictional work built around a historical figure

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Historical romance

Question 6

Why were later romantics less fearful of revolution and more open to democracy?

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They were born after the fearful uncertainty of the French Revolution

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The belief that poets are different, with heightened sensitivity and greater capability to represent feelings

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Cult of genius

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Who held the cult of genius

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Later romantics

Question 9

The belief that nothing has meaning

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Nihilism (Neil-ism)

Question 10

How does lyrical poetry differ from others?

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Speaks from the heart spontaneously

Question 11

Why did the romantics revere nature?

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Because city life was disgusting, difficult, and corrupting

Question 13

What style did Wordsworth and Coleridge prefer?

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Lyrical ballads

Question 14

How do Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience differ from one another?

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Innocence looks at the ideals of democracy while Experience looks at the bloody reality of revolution

Question 15

What is “Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known” by Wordsworth about?

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Universal experience of love and loss

Question 16

What does The Tiger in Blake’s poem of the same name symbolize?

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Revolutionary spirit

Question 17

What does Shelly’s Ode to The West Wind emphasize?

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Nature is both a destroyer and a preserver

Question 18

Why is Kubla Kahn enclosed in the lush Romantic landscape of the dome?

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This keeps it away from the harshness of society, as in line with Romantic values. Think seclusion and society as corrupting

Question 19

What is the religious epiphany in Rime of The Ancient Mariner?

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Revere God and all living things

Question 20

Why is the Ancient Mariner cursed?

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Killed the albatross, a symbol of holiness and bringer of good weather, for no reason

Question 21

A poem with story elements in regular, short stanzas

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Ballad

Question 22

What is the long term curse of the Mariner?

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He has to travel the world, telling his story and reliving it

Question 23

Why is the first figure that appears to the Mariner known as Death?

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It is burning and blocks out the sun

Question 24

What is the second figure that appears to the Mariner called? Describe it.

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Life in death. Beautiful, except for grotesquely pale skin

Question 25

What kind of poem is Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

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A ballad

Question 26

What aspect of the urn does Keats emphasize in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

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That all the images are unchanging and frozen in time

Question 27

What does the speaker in “Ode to a Nightingale” want? Why?

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Wine; he wants to drown his sorrows

Question 28

What emotions are raised in the speaker in “Ode to a Nightingale” by the bird’s song?

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Envy and sadness, because he’ll never be that carefree

Question 29

Who is the bleeding heart Romantic poet?

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Keats

Question 30

In “To a Skylark”, why is it important that the bird is unseen?

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Imagination, which is a tenet of romanticism

Represents the intangible

Question 31

What does the speaker in “To a Skylark” want?

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To learn to speak as well as the skylark can sing, so people will listen to him just as much

Question 32

Why is the inscription in Ozymandias ironic?

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The inscription says this king is the most powerful and the land great, but the statue is crumbling and the landscape barren

Question 33

What is the theme of Ozymanias?

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Hubris does nothing against the power of nature. People’s legacy is insignificant in comparison

Question 34

Why is the woman in Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” so lovely?

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Her innocence and purity, serenity, and contentment

Question 35

What is the Destruction of Sennacherib about?

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A battle

Question 36

What is the horse galloping meter called?

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Anapestic meter

Question 37

What are the couplets in Destruction of Sennacherib called?

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Heroic couplets

Question 38

Why does Byron focus on just one horse and rider’s death in Destruction of Sennacherib?

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Intimate view of the desperate death

Question 39

What is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage about?

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A child’s excursion to the sea

Question 40

What is the speaker’s final wish in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage?

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That the readers have listened to him and learned the moral (exhibits the vanity of later Romantics)

Question 41

What is the moral in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage?

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Humans are small and insignificant next to the power of nature, and should live in awe of it throughout their lifespan.

Question 42

What has been the lasting effect of Tintern Abbey on the speaker?

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Tranquil restoration, inspires him to do deeds of kindness and love

Question 43

What is the theme of “The World is Too Much With Us”?

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Even though the love of nature is old fashioned, he will continue to love it because that’s what he believes in