Test Unit 6 Flashcards
What was a major factor in the communication revolution in England?
Steam
Adam Smith’s policy if “Laissez faire” advocated the role of the noninterference in _______by government.
Business
According to Kant’s philosophy of transcendentalism, which replaced deism, God is said to be within both nature and mankind and is known as what?
World Spirit
Utilitarianism evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of what?
Happiness
The common element in all areas of romantic thinking- political, philosophical and artistic- is what?
Freedom
Who was promoter of primitivism, believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by society.
Rousseau
Characteristics of romantic poetry include:
The poet himself as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe inspiring atmosphere
The publication of what launched the second great era of English song?
Lyrical Ballads
What are the years of the Romantic Period?
1784-1832
Blake’s “London” condemns the following institutions of society:
Religion
Government
Family
In “London” Blake associates ________ and _______, rather than ________ and _________, with marriage by using the unexpected word hearse.
death and mourning
joy and life
According to Blake, obeying one’s imagination and feelings constitutes what?
Man’s salvation
In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, Blake is espousing the tenet of who?
French philosopher, Roussau.
In his work “Garden of Love” it is ironic that Blake includes a graveyard because why?
the garden is supposedly dedicated to love, but it produces death; Also, Blake’s defiance of God’s law will bring him only misery.
The authors of lyrical ballads are who?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Wordsworth credited what as being the major of formative influence on his writing?
nature
The most poetic achievement of British romanticism is?
The Prelude
Wordsworth uses the simile of what to describe the daffidils in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”?
Stars
In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, the depiction of poetry’s “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” reflects what?
the romantic dislike of control.
The redirection of what is the theme or focus of Wordsworth’s controbution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics?
poet’s attention to himself
According to sonnet 1, the difference between the child and the adult is what?
the child communes with nature directly.
According to the speaker in “The World is Too Much With Us” what have exchanged for our hearts?
Materialistic cravings
According to Coleridge the immediate end of poetry is what? What is the ultimate end of poetry?
Pleasure
Truth
In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the albatross brought about the directional change of what?
south to north in the ship’s course.
What are associated with the time of the ancient mariner?
Stillness, heat and silence
The sailors punish the Mariner by doing what?
hanging the dead albatross around his neck
The Mariner shot the albatross without any what?
provocation and offer no move or justification.
The two crew memebers of the specter ship death are what?
death and Life-In- Death
Coleridge differs from Wordsworth in his view of what?
poetic diction.
Charles and Mary Lamb collaborated on what?
a children’s version of Shakespeare’s works.
What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essays?
Nostalgic daydreaming
Lamb decided to write under the name of what so that he would not embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea House.
Elia
The major theme of “Old China” is what?
the superiority of the old days of the youth and poverty.
Wordsworth admired Lamb’s writing. He saw Lamb as what?
kindred spirit and his essays a literary word simliar to his own.
The Byronic hero is characterized by what?
arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will and rebellion.
Who was the mock-heroic work that emphasized Byron’s disillusionment with his own lifestyle?
Don Juan
In his work “On This Day” the lines “then look around,and choose thy ground/and take thy rest” use the poetic device ________ as the speaker attempts to achieve a sense of finality and resignation.
caesura
In “She Walks in Beauty” the poetic device _______ governs the imagery in stanza 1
Simile
What was written as a result of Byron’s travels to the Mediterranean from 1809-1811?
“Childe Herold’s Pilgrimage”
“England in 1819” was inspired by what historical?
event of the Peterloo Massacre.
William Godwin’s position against matrimony is ironic why?
because of his displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelley.
What is Shelley’s elegy on the death of Keats?
“Adonais”
Ozymandias” has the following absurdities:
Legs which support nothing
An empire which is now only desert
The highest part of the statue is now the lowest
Theme and most famous rhetorical question in english literature for “Ode to The West Wind”
if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Section 4 of “Ode to the West Wind” reveals what?
Shelley’s agreement with the romantic belief in the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature.
Keats first unquestionably great poem was what?
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
In “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” the controlling imagery is what?
explorers
In “ the Eve of St.Agnes” who helps porphyro carry out his plan?
Angelo
In “The Eve of St. Agnes” what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?
A storm
Keat’s brother and eventually Keats himself died of what English disease?
tuberculosis
