Romantics

Question 1

William Wordsworth Ballad Example

Answer 1

• “Simon Lee”
• descriptive language example: describes man as “lean” and “sick” (33) and “awry” (34)
• narrative language example: “One summer day I chanced to see” (73)
• rhyme and meter examples:
  
  • “a little man” (3) who lives in “Cardigan” (1)
  • iambic tetrameter
• special features:
  
  • development of the folk hero:
    
    • “He all the country could outrun” (17)
    • “the heavy change” (25)
    • “red as a ripe cherry” (8)
  • dialogue:
    
    • “‘You’re overtasked, good Simon Lee’” (81)
  • moral:
    
    • “tears” (89) “thanks” (90)
    • “gratitude of men” (95)

Question 2

William Wordsworth Narrative Example

Answer 2

• “Michael”
• descriptive language example: “hidden valley” (8) with “rocks and stones and kites” (11)
• narrative language: “the boy grew up” in Micheal’s “increasing love” (344)
• meter example: the poem is in blank verse
• special features:
  
  • personal symbols: “heap of unhewn stones” (17) “a covenant” “THE EVENING STAR” “THE CLIPPING TREE”
  • dialogue: “‘The winds are now devising work for me!’”

Question 3

William Wordsworth Elegy Example

Answer 3

• “Elegaic Stanzas:
• commemorates the death of his brother: “Him whom I deplore”
• structure: “the light that never was” “the Poet’s dream” vs “the sea in anger” “rueful sky”
• special features:
  
  • personification of the castle: “braves” “fortitude and patient cheer”
  • moral: the “I” is transformed to “we” who “suffer and mourn” “distance from the Kind”

Question 4

William Wordsworth Italian Sonnet Example

Answer 4

• “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”
• structure examples:
• special features:

Question 5

William Wordsworth Confessional Example

Answer 5

• “Resolution and Independence”
• autobiographical detail: “I was a Traveller upon the moor”
• descriptive language: “the grass is bright with raindrops” the hare “races in her mirth”
• meditative language: “dim sadness” “Poets” “madness”
• special features:
  
  • folk hero: “Leech-gatherer” talks “cheefully” “stately” “employment hazardous and wearisome!”
  • moral: “In that decrepit Man so firm a mind”

Question 6

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ballad Example

Answer 6

• “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
• narrative lang ex:
• descriptive lang ex:
• rhyme and meter:
• special features:

Question 7

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Confessional Example

Answer 7

• “Frost at Midnight”
• autobiographical detail:
• descriptive lang:
• meditative lang:
• special features:

Question 8

​Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ode Example

Answer 8

• “To William Wordsworth”
• tone:
• enthusiastic praise:
• philosophical lang:
• special features:

Question 9

John Keats Italian Sonnet Example

Answer 9

• “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
• structure:
• special features:

Question 10

John Keats English Sonnet Example

Answer 10

• “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
• structure:
• special features:

Question 11

John Keats Narrative Example

Answer 11

• “The Eve of St. Agnes”
• narrative lang ex:
• descriptive lang ex:
• rhyme and/or meter:
• special features:

Question 12

John Keats Ode Example

Answer 12

• “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
• tone:
• enthusiastic praise:
• philosophical lang:
• special features: