Wordsworth Study Guide
Presumption
Audacity
Symmetry
Beauty resulting from a balance of forms
Who is Wordsworth's closest friend, the one who helped him with his romantic poetry
Coleridge
Confounded
Confused; mixed up; bewildered
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" is easy to recognize as a Romantic poem because it has what characteristic?
Describes the narrator's emotions about a landscape
Sordid
Dirty
Wordsworth's title
Father of Romantic Movement
What is te state of England in "London, 1802"?
He says England has lost its life or spirit; that it has become "a fen / Of stagnant waters".
Who is Wordsworth's closest confidant
His sister Dorothy
What sentence best describes the meaning of these words from "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"? I cannot paint / What then I was . . .
I cannot describe what I was like when I was young
What lines best summarize the theme of the excerpt from The Prelude?
I lost / All feeling of conviction
Why is Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" identified as Romantic poetry?
In the poem, the narrator describes the power of nature and the emotions that nature evokes from him, themes typical of the Romantic period
How do the following lines from the excerpt from The Prelude relate the Romanticism? So I fared, / Dragging all precepts, judgements, maxims, creeds, / Like culprits to the bar . . .
In the quote, Wordsworth is describing how he began to question the products of reasons ("precepts, judgements, maxims, creeds"), which was a characteristic of the Romantics
Essay: what are some qualities of Romantic poetry?
Individualism - poet seen as prophet/seer, orientalism - exotic land and customs progress (man is becoming), nature is seen as a teacher that can heal the mind, emotion, noble savage - being good but society corrupts them (Russo came up with this concept),
What sentence best describes the meaning of these words "London, 1802"? England . . . Is a fen / Of stagnant waters . . .
Life in England has become stale
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" is a poem that celebrates the power of what?
Memory
Stagnant
Motionless; foul
Recompense
Payment in return for something
In "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", Wordsworth describes his second visit to the abbey as more what then the first.
Reflective
What sentence best describes how the Romantic ideal applies to these lines from "London, 1802"? Oh! Raise us up, return to us against; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Romantics believed humanity was better in the past, before it turned away from nature
Wordsworth's image " . . . Of some hermit's cave, where by his fire / The hermit sits alone" in "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" could be said to reflect the Romantics' rejection of the Neoclassical emphasis on ____?
Society
Roused
Stirred up
The following excerpt from Wordsworth's poem, The Prelude, was written within the context of what historical event? But now, become oppressors in their turn, / Frenchmen has changed a war of self-defense / for one of conquest, losing sight of all / Which they had struggled for . . .
The French Revolution
Summarize the following lines from "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" To [these beauteous forms] I may have owed another gift, / Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, / In which the burthen of mystery, / In which the heavy and the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world / Is lightened . . .
The beauty of nature helps the narrator forget his philosophical worries
Anatomize
To dissect in order to examine structure
At the end of "The World Is Too Much With Us", Wordsworth demonstrates by his example the Romantic belief in what?
Transforming power of the mind
In "The World Is Too Much With Us", why does Wordsworth write, "Great God! I'd rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn . . ."?
Wordsworth wished he could view the world with the awe and wonder of an age when everything wasn't explained by reason
What lines in "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" most directly express Wordsworth's interest in the discovery of the mystical or the supernatural through nature?
"... a sense sublime/ Of something..../Whose dwelling is the light of the setting suns..."
What is Wordsworth's main subject in "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
The frenzied quest for wealth
What phrase best describes what Wordsworth mourns in "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
The loss of wonder for nature in the Age Of Reason
Explain why the following lines exemplify Romantic thought. To [these beauteous forms] I may have owed another gift, / Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, / In which the burthen of mystery, / In which the heavy and the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world / Is lightened . . .
The narrator says that the world is "unintelligible", which is a characteristic of the Romantics, who believed that not everything could be explained by science
What phrase best summarize the predominant theme of "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"?
The renewing and uplifting power of nature
Why might a Romantic poet like Wordsworth have supported the French Revolution at first?
The revolutionaries claimed to support the rights and importance of individuals
What sentence best describe Romanticism's attitude toward emotions?
They are an important part of life and an important tool for an artist