U8 L2 Poetic Revolution

Question 1

What were the revolutions that were directly linked to the Romantic movement in England?

Answer 1

• political
• Industrial
• philosophical

Question 2

When was the first edition of Lyrical Ballads published?

Answer 2

1798

Question 3

What is Lyrical Ballads? Who wrote it?

Answer 3

• poetry volume
• first significant publication of Romantic poetry
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge

Question 4

Did Romantic poets even view themselves as ‘Romantic poets’?

Answer 4

no, given title years later

Question 5

Who wrote the Preface of the second edition of Lyrical Ballads?

Answer 5

William Wordsworth

Question 6

What does Wordsworth explain in the Preface?

Answer 6

theories he and Coleridge followed in writing poems

Question 7

Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote poetry that was free of what?

Answer 7

artificial restrictions of earlier poetry

Question 8

Did all Romantic poets accept or use all the elements of Wordsworth’s theory?

Answer 8

no

Question 9

Neoclassic poetry was basically and imitation of what and intended to do what?

Answer 9

• human life

- instruct and please reader

Question 10

What were the characters in Neoclassic poetry meant to represent?

Answer 10

• all men

- examples of acceptable/unacceptable behavior

Question 11

Wordsworth believed that good poetry is a spontaneous overflow of ()

Answer 11

powerful feelings

Question 12

The subject of Romantic poetry was the () of the writer

Answer 12

personal experience

Question 13

What point of view was Romantic poetry written in if the poet is the subject?

Answer 13

first person

Question 14

What form of poem was frequently used to best suit the subject?

Answer 14

lyric

Question 15

Many critics object the use of first person in Romantic poetry and accuse the poet of being too ()

Answer 15

subjective

Question 16

Why did Romantics want to express their thoughts?

Answer 16

make ideas significant

Question 17

Neoclassic poets viewed poetry as an art to be what?

Answer 17

studied and perfected

Question 18

The concept of spontaneity was more a reaction against () than a ()

Answer 18

• Neoclassic inflexibility

- literal statement of Romantic principles

Question 19

What is objective?

Answer 19

describing what is

Question 20

What is subjective?

Answer 20

describing what is as a person sees it

Question 21

A Romantic poet creates poem after doing what?

Answer 21

meditating on the subject

Question 22

Romantic poetry is often called what?

Answer 22

nature poetry

Question 23

Wordsworth said nature could be enjoyed for ()

Answer 23

its own sake

Question 24

Nature serves as a () in nearly all Romantic Poetry

Answer 24

starting point

Question 25

The ()place and () life were suitable subjects for Romantic poetry

Answer 25

common, humble

Question 26

In the Preface, Wordsworth explained the principal purpose in writing the poems in Lyrical Ballads was the choose () and to () in a ()

Answer 26

- common life situations - relate/describe them - language used by men

Question 27

A Romantic theory was that those who lived close to nature were more innocent than people who were corrupted by ()

Answer 27

society

Question 28

What is the noble savage?

Answer 28

concept that primitive man is basically good

Question 29

What is naivete?

Answer 29

state of being simple/innocent

Question 30

The concept of the innocence of life untainted as been criticized for its()

Answer 30

naivete

Question 31

The purpose of using the commonplace in poetry was to add what?

Answer 31

freshness to trivial situations in life

Question 32

Why did Romantic poets use supernatural in the poems?

Answer 32

create sense of wonder

Question 33

What was an unusual experience that Romantics explored in their poems?

Answer 33

mesmerism (hypnotism)