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Romantic Age Poems
Poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Shelley, and Burns as well as some historical facts
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English
12th Grade
03/29/2011

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5 Major Poets
Definition

1. William Wordsworth

2. Byron

3. Keats

4. Shelley

5. Coldridge

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Closet Drama
Definition
Play not acted out
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2 Popular Writing Topics
Definition

Strength of Working Class

Freedom from Oppression

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3 Things That Emphasized Romance
Definition

1. Subjective Viewpoint

2. Nature

3. Mysterious

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Novel Types
Definition

1. Walter Scott: Historical novel ex. Ivanhoe

2. Mary Shelley: Gothic Lit. ex. Frankenstein

3. Jane Austen: Novels of Manners ex. Pride & Prejudice

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A Poison Tree Author
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William Blake
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A Poison Tree Theme
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Repressed Hostility Kills the Relationship dies
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The Lamb Author
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William Blake
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The Tyger Author
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William Blake
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The Lamb Theme
Definition
Innocence of a child to be Christ-like to inherit Heaven
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The Tyger Theme
Definition
Worldly Experience
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The Tyger and Lamb Theme
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Opposite Sides of Human Nature
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What question is the child asking the lamb?
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Who made you?
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Who are the 3 characters of The Lamb?
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Lamb, Child, Jesus
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What makes the Tyger?
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Hammer, anvil, chain, furnace
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In Poison Tree, he ____  his anger with his tears and ____ it with fake smiles.
Definition
watered, sunned
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To A Mouse Author
Definition
Robert Burns
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To A Mouse Theme
Definition
The best laid plans of man & nature are often disrupted
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Why is the mouse better off than the man?
Definition
Nature is only concerned with the present but mankind worries about past, present, & future.
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To A Louse Author
Definition
Robert Burns
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To A Louse Theme
Definition
False Pride
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What type of hat is the lady wearing in To A Louse?
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Lunardi
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If we could see ____ as others do, we would not be so ____.
Definition
ourselves, foolish
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Red Smeddum
Definition
red material used to kill lice
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Form
Definition
stanza structure
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Content of To A Mouse and Louse
Definition
Both use a humble subject to illustrate an universal truth
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To A Mouse Tone
Definition
Romantic
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To A Louse Tone
Definition
Satire
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The Chimney Sweeper Author
Definition
William Blake
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In ___, Parliment passed a law that children under this age __ could not be put to work.
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1708, 7
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Black coffins represent what in dream?
Definition
Chimneys
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The Chimney Sweeper Theme
Definition
Hope Because of an Eternal Dream
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3 Events in Dream
Definition

1. They Play

2. Wash in River

3. Have a Father (God)

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The World is Too Much With Us Author
Definition
William Wordsworth
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The World Theme
Definition
Outcry Against the Industrial Revolution
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The World Bad Words
Definition
Waste, Sordid, Outworn, Out of Tune, Upgathered, Getting and Spending
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The World Tone
Definition
Forlorn
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She Walks in Beauty Author
Definition
Lord Byron
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She Walks in Beauty Theme
Definition
Dedicated to the Beauty of Lady Wilmont Horton
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Days of ___, Mind at ___, Heart that's ___
Definition
Goodness, Peace, Innocent
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Ozymandias Author
Definition
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Ozymandias Theme
Definition
The Limit of Fame and Power and Only Nature and Art Endure
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What land?
Definition
antique
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Ode on a Grecian Urn Author
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John Keats
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Ode on a Grecian Urn Theme
Definition
Poet says that the artist's work is greater because the art transcends time
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Elgian Marbles
Definition
what vases, statues, and other arts were made of
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Beauty is ___ and ____ is beauty
Definition
truth
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