The Romantic Period Flashcards
1
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- He is called the songwriter of Scotland because many of his poems have been set to music.
- He was the son of a farmer
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Robert Burns
2
Q
- It describes the speaker’s, deep love for his or her beloved
- three images to measure how long these feelings of love will last: the seas going dry, the rocks melting, and the sands of life running out.
A
A red, red rose
3
Q
The speaker speaks of a simple life spent with his beloved in the lap of nature (Afton River), and away from the hustle and bustle of the city
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Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
4
Q
- He spent his boyhood filling his mind with Scotting songs, ballads, and legends.
- His poetic narratives based on Scottish legends as well as his magnificent series of novels depicting Scottish life and manners have given him an assured place in English literature.
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Sir Walter Scott
5
Q
- a brave knight who arrives unannounced at the bridal feast of Ellen, his beloved, who is about to be married to “a laggard in love and a dastard in war.”
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Lochivar
6
Q
- England’s greatest poet of nature.
(1) he loved to be alone and was never lonely when with nature.
(2) he felt the presence of some living spirit in nature, real though unseen, companionable though silent
(3) the impressions he recorded in his poems are similar to our own and are delightfully familiar. - He expressed a definite philosophy of life.
A
William Wordsworth
7
Q
- It explores the relationship between nature and humanity.
- It argues for a strong connection between experience, imagination, and language.
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
8
Q
The poem’s speaker describes his first encounter with a “lovely Apparition,” or a beautiful spirit, who turns out to be quite human after all once he gets to know her.
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Sha was a Phantom of Delight
9
Q
- He was a great nature lover.
- English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language.
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Percy Bysshe Shelly
10
Q
- In this writing, Shelley is speaking about his beloved. He says that he was dreaming of his love and went to her chamber window.
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The Indian Serenade
11
Q
- The poem’s speaker addresses the bird directly and praises the purity of its music, later contrasting it with sad, hollow human communication
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To a Skylark
12
Q
- He was born to poor parents who at his birth lived in a stable. Toward the end of his school days, he was set dreaming by his reading of poetry, and he decided on a poetic career.
- his literary career was very brief; all his important poems were written in the span of four years.
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John Keats
13
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It mulls over the strange idea of the human figures carved into the urn.
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
