test 2 wl2

Question 1

stanza

Answer 1

subdivision of a poem; typically follows a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme

Question 2

aubade

Answer 2

A short piece of poetry about the coming of dawn, often meant to be sung outdoors.

Question 3

lyric

Answer 3

(of poetry) expressing the writer’s emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.

Question 4

elegy

Answer 4

A lyric poem that laments the dead.

Question 5

apostrophe

Answer 5

the act of addressing an abstraction or personification that is not physically present

Question 6

pathetic fallacy

Answer 6

A type of personification that applies emotions to nature or inanimate objects. The emotions given often reflect those of the speaker.

Question 7

free verse

Answer 7

Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet.

Question 8

assonance

Answer 8

Repetition of identical or similar vowels (especially in stressed syllabes) in nearby words.

Question 9

consonance

Answer 9

Repetition of two or more consonants.

Question 10

ballad

Answer 10

a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditionally are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

Question 11

run-on line/ Enjambment

Answer 11

A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. An enjambed line differs from an end-stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. In the opening lines of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess,” for example, the first line is end-stopped and the second enjambed

Question 12

end-stopped line

Answer 12

occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax.

Question 13

verse

Answer 13

writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.

Question 14

allusion

Answer 14

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Question 15

lyric poetry

Answer 15

Short and musical
Expresses thoughts, feelings and perceptions of one speaker in an intensely personal way (subjective)
Captures a “moment” rather than telling a story

Question 16

“Ah, death is like a long cool night / And life is like the sultry day.” (1-2)
“Over my bed there’s a tree that gleams—-/ Young nightingales are singing there,” (5-6)

Answer 16

“[Ah, Death is like a long cool night]”

Heinrich Heine

Question 17

“He sleeps; a bright white blanket / Enshrouds him in ice and snow.” (3-4)

Answer 17

“[A pine is standing lonely]”

Heinrich Heine

Question 18

“It is so old a story, / Yet somehow always new; And he that has just lived it, / It breaks his heart in two.” (9-12)

Answer 18

“[A Young Man Loves a Maiden]”

Heinrich Heine

Question 19

“We’re weaving, we’re weaving” (5)
“We waited and hope, in vain persevered” (8)
“A curse on the king of the rich man’s nation / Who hardens his heart at our supplication” (11-12)
“A curse on this false fatherland” (16)

Answer 19

“The Silesian Weavers”

Heinrich Heine

Question 20

“In this immensity my thought is drowned: / And sweet to me the foundering in this sea.” (13-14)

Answer 20

“The Infinite”

Giacomo Leopardi

Question 21

“This life is bitterness / And vacuum, nothing else. The world is mud.” (9-10)
“Despair for the last time. The only gift / Fate gave our kind was death.—-” (12-13)

Answer 21

“To Himself”

Giacomo Leopardi

Question 22

“No human tongue can tell / What I felt then within my brimming heart.” (25-26)
“O Nature, Nature, why / Do you not keep the promises you gave? / Why trick the children so?” (33-35)
“—My poor one, when / The truth rose up, you fell, / And from afar pointed me the way / To coldest death and the stark sepulchre.” (52-55)

Answer 22

“To Sylvia”

Giacomo Leopardi

Question 23

“Of all the seven days this is the one / Most cherished, full of joy and expectation.” (36-37)
“O playful little boy, / Your flowering time is like a day of grace, / So brightly blue, / Anticipating the great feast of life.“ (41-45)

Answer 23

“The Village Saturday”

Giacomo Leopardi

Question 24

“And thus, forever driven towards new shores, / Swept into eternal night without return, / Will we never, for even one day, drop anchor / On time’s vast ocean?” (1-4)
“But I ask in vain for just a few more moments, / Time escaping me flees; / While I beg the night: ‘Slow down’ already/ It fades into dawn.” (29-32)
“May everything that we hear and see and breathe, / Awaken the memory of —their love!” (63-64)

Answer 24

“The Lake”

Alphonse de Lamartine

Question 25

“Poison flows / In my veins” (35-38)
“Sea, start to churn! / Be a grave for me! / Golden harp, / Strike like thunder! / Fire, flow, / Warm this poor woman!” (43-48)

Answer 25

“From the Seashore”

Anna Petrovna Bunina

Question 26

“Oh poor child, barefoot on these sharp-edged rocks! / Oh to stop the crying of your blue eyes, / blue like the sky and like the sea” (13-15)
“ ‘Friend,’ replied the Greek child with the clear blue eyes, ‘I want some bullets and a gun.’ ” (35-36)

Answer 26

“The Child”

Victor Hugo

Question 27

“I will walk, my eyes seeing only mind’s visions / Seeing nothing else, hearing not a sound” (5-6)
“And when I arrive, I will place upon your grave / A wreath of green holly and heather in bloom.“ (11-12)

Answer 27

“Tomorrow at Daybreak”

Victor Hugo

Question 28

“The loveliest maiden is sitting / Up there, so wondrously fair;” (9-10)
“She combs with a golden comb, preening, / And sings a song, passing time.” (13-14)
“The boatman aboard his small skiff, –Enraptured with a wild ache, Has no eye for the jagged cliff, –His thoughts on the heights fear forsake.” (17-20)

Answer 28

“Die Lorelei” (The Lorelei)

Heinrich Heine

Question 29

“—heralds a dawn in the night of the soul,” (2)

“in words that were at the same time / sighs and laughs, colours and notes.” (7-

Answer 29

“[I Know a Strange Gigantic Hymn]” Rima I

Gustavo Aldolfo Bécquer

Question 30

“I live with the formless / life of idea.” (3-4)

“I, in short, am that spirit, / unfamiliar essence, / mysterious perfume, / of which the poet is the vessel” (73-76)

Answer 30

“[Nameless Spirit]” Rima V

Gustavo Aldopho Bécquer

Question 31

“In winter spared her life, and when anew / The earth was being born in blossoming, / Slew her by inches to the joyous hymns / Of fair and merry spring!” (7-10)

Answer 31

“[The Ailing Woman felt her forces ebb]”

Rosalia de Castro

Question 32

“But well remember this: No insolent cry/ To Heaven makes its way / From one whose heart adores material things, / Who makes an idol out of Adam’s clay.” (22-25)

Answer 32

“[A Glowworm Scatters Flashes through the Moss]”

Rosalia de Castro

Question 33

“Abyss above, and in the depths abyss: What things come to an end and what remain?” (3-4)

Answer 33

“[A Glowworm Scatters Flashes through the Moss]”

Rosalia de Castro

Question 34

describe some of the main differences between the romantic and the enlightenment view?

Answer 34

The two terms, in fact, relate to different things. The Enlightenment started in the late 17th century, progressing through the 18th and was a time when thinkers began to look at the world around them from a scientific, rather than a superstitious, viewpoint. This led to a reconsideration of how the political system should work. The Romantic Period (of the 19th century), on the other hand, was not bothered with such,. but was a movement in the arts - music, literature and painting, for example. It was a move towards a more personal view away from the classical, objective, view of the 18th century.

Question 35

what are some three or four things that romanticism emphasizes?

Answer 35

1. feeling,
2. imagination,
3. the primitive

Question 36

which one (reason or feelings) should be the guide to certainty, according to the romantics? why?

Answer 36

feelings, they believed The heart, not reason, was a source of knowledge.

Question 37

what is the romantic view of traditional authority and self?

Answer 37

Most Romantics believed in individual liberty and sympathized with those who rebelled against tyranny.

Question 38

alba

Answer 38

A Provençal (southern France) medieval lyric poem about the coming of dawn. The theme can be religious or more often about lovers parting at dawn.

Question 39

poems to do with Love and Broken Hearts

Answer 39

1.“[A Young Man Loves a Maiden]”
unrequited love
2.“[A pine is standing lonely]”
love where there is something keeping the lovers apart
3. “To Himself”
a person who keeps experiancing unrequited love and if finnally through with having his heart broken by his love not being returned

Question 40

Rosalia de Castro

poem(s:

Answer 40

As I Composed This Little Book
A Glowworm Scatters Flashes through the Moss
The Ailing Woman Felt Her Forces Ebb

Question 41

Rosalia de Castro nationality.

Answer 41

Spanish

Question 42

Victor Hugo poem(s:

Answer 42

“The Child”

“tomorrow at daybreak”

Question 43

Victor Hugo Nationality

Answer 43

french

Question 44

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer poem(s:

Answer 44

“Nameless Spirit”

“I know a strange gigantic hymn”

Question 45

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer Nationality

Answer 45

Spanish

Question 46

Heinrich Heine poem(s:

Answer 46

“The Silesian Weavers”
“A Pine Is Standing Lonely”
“A Young Man Loves a Maiden”
 “Ah death is like the long cool night”
Carmen

Question 47

Heinrich Heine Nationality

Answer 47

German of Jewish heritage

Question 48

Giacomo Leopardi poem(s:

Answer 48

“the infinate”
“To Himself”
“To Sylvia”
“the village saturday”

Question 49

Giacomo Leopardi Nationality

Answer 49

Italian