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Romantic Poetry
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12th Grade
05/22/2012

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what American movement paralleled the Romantic Movement in England?
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Transcendentalism
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which of the Romantic poets was expelled from college?
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Shelley
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Which of the Romantic poets lived in the Lake District in England?
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Wordsworth and Coleridge
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What was Byron's opinion of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey?
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Wordsworth- crazy
Coleridge- drunk
Southey- mouthy
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Which poem features the character "Old Egypt's King Cheops"?
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Don Juan- Byron
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Which poem features a character referred to as "the Wedding Guest"?
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Ancient Mariner - Coleridge
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which poem describes an old leech gatherer on the moors?
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Wordsworth- Resolution of Independence
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name the Romantic poet who greatly admired 18th century poetry and is himself known for writing satirical verse.
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Lord Byron
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List five characteristics of Romanticism
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(1798)- improbably, fictional, imaginable "silly", nature, personal, rejection of conventions, celebration of simple "primitive", mystery- irrational, emotional, distant places/times, common speech
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which of the Romantic poets died and lived outside England?
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Byron, Shelley, Keats
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which of the Romantic poets was physically handsome but had a clubfoot?
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Lord Byron
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List five characteristics of the Byronic hero
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dashing, mysterious, wordily wiry, melancholy, self-destructive
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what did the Ancient Mariner do wrong and what was his punishment?
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He killed the albatross. His punishment was to not drink water, he could never die, lives forever to tell his tale while wearing the albatross around his neck.
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What did the great marble monuments of a man mean to Shelley?
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Nothing did remain-- Ozymandias
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which of the Romantic poets wrote sonnets?
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Byron, Shelley, Keats
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What is depicted on the urn in Keat's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
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to depict a group of men pursuing a group of women and wonders what their story could be: “What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? / What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?”
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What is the message of the urn and what does it mean?
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”Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” and it means all human beings need to know on earth is that beauty and truth are one and the same.
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who was called the "Father of Romanticism"?
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Rousseau
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what was the Congress of Vienna
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after defeat of Napoleon (waterloo) --> Reinstate monarchy
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the publication of what work, by whom, and when, signaled the beginning of the Romantic Age in British Literature
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lyrical ballads (1798) with Wordsworth and Coleridge
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name two writers of the English Gothic novel
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Shelley and Walpole
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list four literary critics of the Romantic Age
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Coleridge, Hozlit, Lamb, Dequincy (or... whatever)
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list the five Romantic poets from oldest to youngest at time of death
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1: Wordsworth
2: Coleridge How to remember:
3: Byron With Color
4: Shelley Brings Shear Keepsakes
5: Keats
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which of the Romantic poets was recognized by the gov't and appointed "poet Laureate"?
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Wordsworth
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which of the Romantic poets died from drowning at sea?
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Shelley
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which of the Romantic poets died of tuberculosis?
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Keats
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Which of the Romantic poets died in Greece during the Greek revolution?
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Byron (fever)
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which of the Romantic poets was addicted to opium?
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Coleridge
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Who wrote..."Where Alph, the sacred river, ran/through caverns measureless to man/ Down to a sunless sea?"?
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Coleridge-- Kublah Khan
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Who wrote..." If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind"?
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Shelley-- Oh to the West Wind
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Who wrote... "Much have I traveled in the realms of gold"?
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Keats-- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
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Who wrote... "Water, water, everywhere,/Nor any drop to drink"?
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Coleridge- Ancient Mariner
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Who wrote... "hail to thee, blithe spirit!"?
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Shelley-- skylark
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Who wrote... "He prayeth best, who loveth best/ All things both great and small"?
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Coleridge-- Ancient Mariner
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Who wrote... "through nothing can bring back the hour/of splendor in the grass of glory in the flower"?
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Wordsworth-- Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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Who wrote... "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter, therefore, ye soft pipes, play on"?
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Keats--Ode on a Grecian Urn
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