Unit 6: Notes Flashcards
In “London” Blake associates death and mourning, rather than joy and life, with marriage by using the unexpected word “________”.
Hearse
Blake’s “London” condemns the following institutions of society:
- Religion
- Government
- Family
According to Blake obeying one’s imagination and feelings constitutes man’s ___________
Salvation
According to Blake, obeying one’s ____________ and _________ constitutes man’s salvation
Imagination
Feelings
In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, Blake is espousing the tenet of the French philosopher, ____________.
Rousseau
In his work “Garden of Love” it is ironic that” Blake includes a _____________ because the garden is supposedly dedicated to _______, but it produces death: Also, Blake’s defiance of God’s Law will bring only misery.
Graveyard
Love
Who are the authors of Lyrical Ballads?
William Wordsmith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wordsworth credited _________ as being the major ___________ ___________ on his writing.
Nature
Formative Influence
In “London” Blake associates death and __________, rather than ____________ and life, with marriage by using the unexpected works hearse.
Mourning
Joy
The most poetic achievement of British romanticism is?
“The Prelude”
Wordsworth uses the simile of ______ to describe the daffodils in “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”.
Stars
In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process p, the depiction of poetry’s “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” reflects?
The romantic dislike of control
What is the theme or focus of Wordsworth’s contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics?
The redirection to t poets attention to himself
According to sonnet 1, the key difference between the child and the adult is?
The child communes with nature directly
According to the speaker in “ The World is Too Much With Us” what have we exchanged for our hearts?
Materialistic cravings
True or False: Lucy’s identity, of the Lucy poems, has never been established and is probably fictional
True
According to Coleridge, the immediate end of poetry is _____________ and the ultimate end is ________.
Pleasure
Truth
In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” the albatross brought about what?
The directional change of south to north in the ship’s course
_____________, ______, and __________ are associated with “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
Stillness
Heat
Silence
How do the sailors punish the Mariner?
By hanging the dead albatross around his neck
The mariner shot the albatross without any _____________ and offers no ________ or ______________.
Provocation
Motive
Justification
The two members of the spectre ship are?
- Death
2. Life-in-Death
Coleridge differs from Wordsworth in his view of _________ ________.
Poetic diction
__________ and ______ Lamb collaborated on a children’s version of Shakespeare’s works.
Charles
Mary
What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essay?
Nostalgic daydreaming
Lamb decided to write under the name of _____ so that he wouldn’t embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea Horse.
Elia
What is the major theme of “Old China”?
The superiority of the old days of youth and poverty
Who admired Lamb’s writing?
Wordsworth
The __________ _____ is characterized by arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will, and rebellion.
Byronic hero
_____ ______ was the mock-heroic work that emphasized Byron’s disillusionment with his own lifestyle.
Don Juan
Don Juan was the mock-heroic work that emphasized Byron’s _______________ with his own ___________.
Disillusionment
Lifestyle
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 _____________________________________.
Caesura
A sense of finality and resignation
In “She Walks in Beauty “ the poetic device ________ governs the imagery in stanza __.
Simile
1
In “She Walks in Beauty” this lyric is a _____________ to the woman whose ____________ __________ is equaled by and indeed an expression of her beauty of _____.
Compliment
Physical Beauty
Soul
“Childe Herold’s Pilgrimage” was written as a result of Byron’s travels to the _____________ from ________.
Mediterranean
1809-11
“England in 1819” was inspired by the historical event of the _________ __________.
Peterloo Massacre
Why is William Godwin’s position against matrimony is ironic?
His displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelley
_________ is Shelley’s elegy on the death of Keats.
“Adonis”
“Adonuis” is Shelley’s elegy on the death of ______
Keats
“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
The theme and most famous rhetorical question in English Literature for “Ode to the West Wind”?
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
John Keats first unquestionably great poem was?
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
In “On First looking into Chapman’s Homer” the controlling imagery is __________.
Explorers
In “The Eve of St. Agnes” ________ is the one who helps Porphyro carry out his plan
Angela
In “The Eve of St. Agnes” a storm brings __________ and ____________ back to reality
Madeline
Porphyro
Keat’s brother and eventually Keats himself died of the Englsih disease, _____________.
Tuberculosis
