Identifying lines and themes Romantic poetry
and on that cheek and o'er that brow, so soft, so calm, yet eloquent, the smiles that win, the tints that glow, but tell of days in goodness spent, a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!
"She walks in beauty" by Lord Byron
the Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; the winds that will be howling at all hours, are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;...
"The world is too much with us; late and soon" by Wordsworth
lost love, secrets, Romantic notion of feeling feelings and making known feelings - owning feelings
"When we two parted" by Lord Byron
individuality, weird and crazy, not understandable, nature
Kubla Khan by Coleridge
death, hope, becoming one with nature/nature overpowering man
Lucy Gray by Wordsworth
to-night will be a stormy night -- you to the town must go; and take a lantern, Child, to light your mother through the snow.
Lucy Gray by Wordsworth
because I was happy among the heath, and smil'd among the winter's snow, they clothed me in the clothes of death, and taught me to sing the notes of woe.
The Chimney Sweeper by Blake
the child is father of the Man; and I could wish my days to be bound each to each by natural piety.
"My heart leaps up when I behold" by Wordsworth
youth, innocence, religion, nature and appreciating it
"My heart leaps up when I behold" by Wordsworth
a violet by a mossy stone half hidden from the eye! fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky.
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways" by Wordsworth
rise of the individual, beauty, death, comparing nature to people so in a way nature
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways" by Wordsworth
individuality in description of the woman, capturing her beauty with nature metaphors, innocence
"She walks in beauty" by Lord Byron
against industrial revolution, wants nature and individuality back, religion, wants people to be in tune with nature and for people to appreciate it
"The world is too much with us; late and soon" by Wordsworth
the dew of the morning sunk chill on my brow -- it felt like the warning of what I feel now.
"When we two parted" by Lord Byron
could I revive within me her symphony and song, to such a deep delight 'would win me, that with music loud and long
Kubla Khan by Coleridge
appreciation of nature first and foremost, power of nature vs. man
Lines by Wordsworth
the day is come when I again repose here, under this dark sycamore, and view these plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,....
Lines by Wordsworth
against industrialization, thinks it's limiting; against authority and strictness, religious tones, for individuality
London by Blake
in every cry of every Man, in every Infant's cry of fear, in every voice, in every ban, the mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
London by Blake
half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
Ozymandias by Shelley
power of nature over man/man-made things
Ozymandias by Shelley
about death and religion, and a child being happy and not caring about the child's happiness. theme of industrialization versus nature and condemnation of industrialization
The Chimney Sweeper by Blake
about religion and nature, against changing nature into something else for human purposes, loving nature, closeness to God
The Garden of Love by Blake
and I saw it was filled with graves, and tomb-stones where flowers should be; and Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, and binding with briars my joys & desires.
The Garden of Love by Blake
innocence, hope, youth, nature, religion, death and afterlife
We Are Seven by Wordsworth
their graves are green, they may be seen, the little Maid replied, twelve steps or more from my mother's door, and they are side by side.
We Are Seven by Wordsworth