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Unit 6: Notes Flashcards

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In “London” Blake associates death and mourning, rather than joy and life, with marriage by using the unexpected word “________”.

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Hearse

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Blake’s “London” condemns the following institutions of society:

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  1. Religion
  2. Government
  3. Family
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According to Blake obeying one’s imagination and feelings constitutes man’s ___________

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Salvation

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According to Blake, obeying one’s ____________ and _________ constitutes man’s salvation

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Imagination

Feelings

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In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, Blake is espousing the tenet of the French philosopher, ____________.

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Rousseau

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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.

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Graveyard

Love

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Who are the authors of Lyrical Ballads?

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William Wordsmith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Wordsworth credited _________ as being the major ___________ ___________ on his writing.

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Nature

Formative Influence

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In “London” Blake associates death and __________, rather than ____________ and life, with marriage by using the unexpected works hearse.

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Mourning

Joy

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The most poetic achievement of British romanticism is?

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“The Prelude”

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Wordsworth uses the simile of ______ to describe the daffodils in “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”.

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Stars

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In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process p, the depiction of poetry’s “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” reflects?

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The romantic dislike of control

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What is the theme or focus of Wordsworth’s contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics?

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The redirection to t poets attention to himself

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According to sonnet 1, the key difference between the child and the adult is?

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The child communes with nature directly

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According to the speaker in “ The World is Too Much With Us” what have we exchanged for our hearts?

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Materialistic cravings

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True or False: Lucy’s identity, of the Lucy poems, has never been established and is probably fictional

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True

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According to Coleridge, the immediate end of poetry is _____________ and the ultimate end is ________.

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Pleasure

Truth

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In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” the albatross brought about what?

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The directional change of south to north in the ship’s course

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_____________, ______, and __________ are associated with “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

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Stillness
Heat
Silence

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How do the sailors punish the Mariner?

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By hanging the dead albatross around his neck

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The mariner shot the albatross without any _____________ and offers no ________ or ______________.

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Provocation
Motive
Justification

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The two members of the spectre ship are?

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  1. Death

2. Life-in-Death

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Coleridge differs from Wordsworth in his view of _________ ________.

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Poetic diction

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__________ and ______ Lamb collaborated on a children’s version of Shakespeare’s works.

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Charles

Mary

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What is the primary mood of Lamb’s essay?

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Nostalgic daydreaming

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Lamb decided to write under the name of _____ so that he wouldn’t embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea Horse.

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Elia

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What is the major theme of “Old China”?

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The superiority of the old days of youth and poverty

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Who admired Lamb’s writing?

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Wordsworth

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The __________ _____ is characterized by arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will, and rebellion.

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Byronic hero

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_____ ______ was the mock-heroic work that emphasized Byron’s disillusionment with his own lifestyle.

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Don Juan

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Don Juan was the mock-heroic work that emphasized Byron’s _______________ with his own ___________.

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Disillusionment

Lifestyle

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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 _____________________________________.

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Caesura

A sense of finality and resignation

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In “She Walks in Beauty “ the poetic device ________ governs the imagery in stanza __.

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Simile

1

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In “She Walks in Beauty” this lyric is a _____________ to the woman whose ____________ __________ is equaled by and indeed an expression of her beauty of _____.

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Compliment
Physical Beauty
Soul

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“Childe Herold’s Pilgrimage” was written as a result of Byron’s travels to the _____________ from ________.

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Mediterranean

1809-11

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“England in 1819” was inspired by the historical event of the _________ __________.

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Peterloo Massacre

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Why is William Godwin’s position against matrimony is ironic?

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His displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelley

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_________ is Shelley’s elegy on the death of Keats.

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“Adonis”

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“Adonuis” is Shelley’s elegy on the death of ______

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Keats

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“Ozymandias” has the following absurdities:

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  1. Legs which support nothing
  2. An empire which is now only desert
  3. The highest part of the statue is now the lowest
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The theme and most famous rhetorical question in English Literature for “Ode to the West Wind”?

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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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John Keats first unquestionably great poem was?

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“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

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In “On First looking into Chapman’s Homer” the controlling imagery is __________.

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Explorers

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In “The Eve of St. Agnes” ________ is the one who helps Porphyro carry out his plan

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Angela

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In “The Eve of St. Agnes” a storm brings __________ and ____________ back to reality

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Madeline

Porphyro

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Keat’s brother and eventually Keats himself died of the Englsih disease, _____________.

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Tuberculosis

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