Poetry

Question 1

Who was William Blake?

Answer 1

He was a famous poet, painter, engraver and visionary.

Question 2

What does William Blake’s painting express?

Answer 2

They are very religion based, because I liked to express how he was feeling. He hated the church but believed in God.

Question 3

What did William Blake support?

Answer 3

He supported the French revolution and the American Revolution.

Question 4

What was Blake’s most famous poetry collections called?

Answer 4

songs of innocence and experience

Question 5

What does the innocence section in ‘Songs of innocence and experience represent?

Answer 5

It has a positive tone and celebrates love, childhood and nature.

Question 6

What does the experience section in ‘Songs of innocence and experience represent?

Answer 6

It illustrates the negative and depressing side of life.

Question 7

What burning did Blake take part in?

Answer 7

The Newgate prison

Question 8

What happened during June 1780?

Answer 8

Riots broke out

Question 9

What is Holy Thursday talking about?

Answer 9

It is talking about children going to church. He is talking about how evil the church is and how the children are being manipulated by the church.

Question 10

What type of form of poetry was ‘Holy Thursday’?

Answer 10

It was a ballad form of poetry.

Question 11

What does ‘ballad form’ mean?

Answer 11

It is a type of poetry that tells the tale of ordinary people.

Question 12

What does U and / mean?

Answer 12

U = unstressed syllable
/ = stressed syllable

Question 13

Why does the first stanza in ‘Holy Thursday’ contain a long sentence?

Answer 13

It reflects the long que of children.

Question 14

Why is there a strict rhythm throughout ‘Holy Thursday’?

Answer 14

It could reflect how strict the church is.

Question 15

Why was the rhythm of ‘Holy Thursday’ faltering on ‘thousands’ and ‘innocent’?

Answer 15

Those words could seem significant to Blake. Maybe since the rhythm is strict and constant throughout, since this shows how strict the church is, it could be representing how these are almost unbreakable.

Question 16

When had the Romantic period started?

Answer 16

1798 until 1837

Question 17

What was Romanticism focussed on?

Answer 17

Beauty and power of the human mind and on the power of nature and the interior world of feeling.

Question 18

Why did Keats write poetry about fear and death?

Answer 18

His father, mother and brother died whilst he was quite young. He had thanatophobia (fear of not existing).

Question 19

When approaching an unseen poem, what are the 5 things to include?

Answer 19

Title
Form
Structure
Language
Technique

Question 20

What is the poem ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’ about?

Answer 20

It is about not having enough time to enjoy life.

Question 21

What is the form of the poem ‘When I have fears…’?

Answer 21

It’s in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet.

Question 22

What is a sonnet?

Answer 22

It is a poem of 14 lines.

Question 23

When was Keats poem ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be.’ published?

Answer 23

1818

Question 24

How old was Bronte when she wrote The Bluebell?

Answer 24

She was 20 years old

Question 25

Where did Bronte grow up?

Answer 25

She grew up near the wild.

Question 26

What tragic events happened in Bronte’s life?

Answer 26

Her mother died when she was 2 and her two eldest sisters died 4 years later from consumption (tuberculosis).

Question 27

When did Bronte die?

Answer 27

She died at age 29 from tuberculosis.