Romantic Period

Question 1

What was a major factor in the communication revolution in England?

Answer 1

Steam

Question 2

Who’s policy of laissez faire advocated the role of no inference in business by government?

Answer 2

Adam Smith

Question 3

What does Kant’s philosophy of transcendentalism believe?

Answer 3

God is said to be both within nature and mankind and is known as a World Spirit

Question 4

What is God known as in transcendentalism?

Answer 4

The World Spirit

Question 5

What evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness?

Answer 5

Utilitarianism

Question 6

Christians would agree with the romantics on what?

Answer 6

> Human reason has limitations
Institution has some validity
The individual has value

Question 7

Christians and Romantics differ in what belief?

Answer 7

Their belief of God

Question 8

What are the different beliefs that Christians and Romantics hold on their concept of God?

Answer 8

> Christians recognize the deity of an eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God

> Romantic transcendentalist consider God to be a World Spirit coexisting within His creation, both mankind and nature

Question 9

What is the common element in all areas of romantic thinking?

Answer 9

Freedom from limits

Question 10

Who believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by society?

Answer 10

Rousseau

Question 11

What are the characteristics of romantic poetry?

Answer 11

> The poet himself as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe inspiring atmosphere

Question 12

The publication of what launched the second great era of English song?

Answer 12

“Lyrical Ballads”

Question 13

Blake’s “London” condemns what institutions of society?

Answer 13

> Religion
Government
Family

Question 14

In “London” Blake associated what with marriage by using the unexpected word hearse?

Answer 14

Death and mourning, rather than joy and life

Question 15

According to Blake what constitutes mans salvation?

Answer 15

Obeying ones imagination and feelings

Question 16

In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, who is Blake espousing?

Answer 16

The French philosopher Rousseau

Question 17

In his work “The Garden of Love” why is it ironic that Blake included a graveyard?

Answer 17

The garden is supposedly dedicated to love but it produces death

Question 18

What did Blake’s defiance of Gods law bring?

Answer 18

Only his misery

Question 19

Who were the authors of “Lyrical Ballads”?

Answer 19

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 20

What is Wordsworth credited nature as being?

Answer 20

The major formative influence on his writing

Question 21

What is the most poetic achievement of British romanticism?

Answer 21

“The Prelude”

Question 22

What does Wordsworth use to describe the daffodils in “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud”?

Answer 22

A simile of stars

Question 23

What is Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process?

Answer 23

The depiction of poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”

Question 24

What did Wordsworth’s definition of he poetic process reflect about that romantics?

Answer 24

Their dislike of control

Question 25

In "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" what and why did the poet redirect the attention to himself?

Answer 25

Th theme/focus because it was a contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics

Question 26

Accorded to Sonnet 1, what is the key difference between child and adult?

Answer 26

The child communes with nature directly

Question 27

According to he speaker in "The World is too Much With Us" what is exchanged?

Answer 27

Materialistic craving exchanged for our hearts

Question 28

Describe Lucy's identity from "The Lucy Poems."

Answer 28

Has never been established and is probably fictional

Question 29

According to Coleridge what is important about the end of the poem?

Answer 29

The immediate end of poetry is pleasure and the ultimate end is truth

Question 30

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner what does the albatross bring?

Answer 30

The directional change of south to north is the ships course

Question 31

What are associated with the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

Answer 31

Stillness Heat Silence

Question 32

How did the sailor punish the mariner?

Answer 32

Hanging the dead albatross around his neck

Question 33

Why did the mariner shoot the albatross?

Answer 33

He shot it without any provocation and offers no motive or justification

Question 34

Who are the two crew members of the spectre ship?

Answer 34

Death and Life-In-Death

Question 35

What does Coleridge differ from Wordsworth?

Answer 35

His view of poetic diction

Question 36

Who did Charles Lamb collaborate with to do what?

Answer 36

Mary Lamb on a children's version of Shakespeare's work

Question 37

What is the primary mood of Lambs essay?

Answer 37

Nostalgic daydreaming

Question 38

What name does Lamb decide to write under so he wouldn't embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea House?

Answer 38

Elia

Question 39

Who admired Lambs writing and why?

Answer 39

Wordsworth because he saw lamb as a kindred spirit and his essays a literary world similar to his own

Question 40

What is the major theme of "Old China"?

Answer 40

The superiority of the old days of youth and poverty

Question 41

What was inspired by the historical event of the Peterloo massacre?

Answer 41

English in 1819

Question 42

Why is William good wins position against matrimony ironic?

Answer 42

Because of his displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelley

Question 43

What is Shelley's elegy on the death of Keats?

Answer 43

Adonais

Question 44

"Ozymandis" has what absurdities?

Answer 44

>Legs which support nothing >An empire which is now only desert >The highest part of the statue is now the lowest

Question 45

What is the theme and most famous rhetorical question in English literature for "Ode to the West Wind"?

Answer 45

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Question 46

What does Section IV of "Ode to the West Wind" reveal?

Answer 46

Shelleys agreement with the romantic belief in the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature

Question 47

What was John Keats first unquestionable great poem?

Answer 47

"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

Question 48

In "On First Looking into Chapman Homer" what is the controlling imagery?

Answer 48

Explorers

Question 49

I'n "The Eve of St. Agnes" who is the one who helps Porphyro carry out his plan?

Answer 49

Angela

Question 50

In "The Eve of St. Agnes" what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?

Answer 50

The storm

Question 51

What happens to Keat and his brother?

Answer 51

They both eventually die of tuberculosis

Question 52

What is Utilitarianism?

Answer 52

the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness

Question 53

What does Adam Smiths policy on Laissez Faire say?

Answer 53

Advocated the role of No interference in business by government

Question 54

What is the Byronic Hero characterized as?

Answer 54

Arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will and rebellion

Question 55

What was the mock heroic work that emphasized Byron's disillusionment with his own lifestyle?

Answer 55

Don Juan

Question 56

In his work "On This Day" the lines "then look around, and choose thy ground, /and take thy rest uses what and how?

Answer 56

The poetic device caesuras as the speaker attempts to achieve a sense of finality and resignation

Question 57

In "She Walks in Beauty" what poetic device is used and why?

Answer 57

Simile - to govern the imagery in stanza 1

Question 58

In "She Walks in Beauty" the lyric is a compliment to who?

Answer 58

The women whose physical beauty is equaled by and indeed an expression of her beauty of soul

Question 59

Why was "Childe Herolds Pilgrimage" written?

Answer 59

As a result of Byron's travel to the Mediterranean from 1809-111

Question 60

What was English 1819 inspired by?

Answer 60

the historical event of the Peterloo massacre