Victorian Poetry

Question 0

Queen Victoria

Answer 0

-Reigned starting at age 18; 1837-1901
-Left governing to prime minister after husband’s death
•Led to more ceremonial monarch,
expanded democracy
-Longest British Monarch reign of 64 years

Question 1

Victorian Age span

Answer 1

1833 - 1901

Question 2

What were some effects from the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 2

-Industrial & Middle class
-Powerful Navy: Colonization, idea of superiority over other nations
-Social Concerns: Industry
•Slums
•Brutal Factory conditions
•Caused poverty & spread of
disease.

Question 3

Major Victorian Era thoughts

Answer 3

-Humanity had the ability to better itself
-1859: Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
•survival of the fittest
•Natural Selection
-Evangelism

Question 4

Romanticism in Victorian Age

Answer 4

• continued to influence writers of this time
• Poetic language
• Was not new & as popular during this time but stale and safe

Question 5

Realism

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• Life is presented as it is, not as it could be
• ordinary people facing day to day problems
• Family relationships
• religion and morality
• prose
• social change and reform

Question 6

Naturalism

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• applied the techniques of scientific observ. to writing about Industrial Age
• Details of smells and sound of poverty and factory life
• portrayed nature as harsh and indifferent to the human suffering it caused

Question 7

Lord Tennyson

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• influenced by romantic writers
• wrote long narrative poems on ancient and medieval themes
• Lady of Shallot, Charge of Light Brigade

Question 8

Robert Browning

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-Romantic attitude in many poems
-Often used dramatic monologue
-1846 married the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
•more famous poet
•father forbade marriage
-My Last Duchess, Home Thoughts, from Abroad

Question 9

Matthew Arnold

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-Alienation themes in poems
-Dover Beach, To Marguerite Continued
•free verse

Question 10

Thomas Hardy

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• Poems focused on workers and farmers overwhelmed by the forces of nature and society
• The Darkling Thrush, The Man He Killed

Question 11

A.E. Housman

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• Wrote of personal loss and social change

- When I was One-and-Twenty, With Rue My Heart is Laden

Question 12

Rudyard Kipling

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• wrote poems, fiction, children’s stories
• action packed narrative poems
• If, Tommy

Question 13

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• Catholic Priest and poet
• Inspired other writers
• Invented Sprung Rhythm; abandoned metric feet
• God’s Grandeur, Pied Beauty

Question 14

Victorian Drama

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-mostly uninspired during this era, essp. when compared to the poetry of the time

Question 15

Victorian Fiction

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• Novels were popular

- Serialized novels were also popular

Question 16

Charles Dickens

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• 1812 - 1870
• Most popular Victorian Novelist
• Novels filled w/ details that dramatize the problems of industrialization.

Question 20

falling meter

Answer 20

stress on 1st beat; never starts w/ “the” for example.

Question 21

polyscendatin

Answer 21

repetition of words (alliteration is repetition of sounds). ex. so beautiful, so moving, so pure.

Question 36

enjabment

Answer 36

continuation of a sentence or clause over a line break.

Question 37

Caesura

Answer 37

A complete stop in a sentence or line of a poem.

Question 38

anaphora

Answer 38

repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses.

ex. canons to the left, canons to the right, cannons in front