Romantic Poetry

(When We Two Parted) The poem was first published in 1816, but Byron falsely attributed its writing to ____ in order to protect the identity of its subject, Lady _________________.

1808; Frances Wedderburn Webster

(Ode to the West Wind) Examples of figures of speech and rhetorical devices—________ wild west wind (Line l).

Alliteration

(Ode to the West Wind) Examples of figures of speech and rhetorical devices—________: leaves dead (2) --- ________is inversion of the normal word order ---ex. A man forgotten instead of a forgotten man.

Anastrophe

(Ode to the West Wind) Examples of figures of speech and rhetorical devices—________: throughout the poem the poet addresses the west wind as if it were a person.

Apostrophe

(The Lamb) The child's answer reveals his confidence in his simple ______ faith and his innocent acceptance of its _______.

Christian; teachings

(My Last Duchess) The speaker is a ____ who recently lost his wife and calls her the "_________"

Duke; Last Duchess

(The Lamb) The companion poem, "The Tyger," found in Songs of _______, gives a perspective on religion that includes the good as well as the ________ and _________.

Experience; terrible; inscrutable

(The Lamb) Who is the child in the second stanza saying made the Lamb?

God

(The Tyger) The question is: what kind of ____ could or WOULD create such a terrifying beast?

God

(The Lamb) The lamb, of course, symbolizes _____.

Jesus

(Ode to the West Wind) Examples of figures of speech and rhetorical devices—_______: comparison of autumn to a living breathing creature (1).

Metaphor

(Kubla Khan) The fourth stanza states the theme of the poem as a whole. The speaker says that he once had a vision of the damsel singing of _____ ______; this vision becomes a metaphor for Coleridge's ____ of the 300 line masterpiece he never completed.

Mount Abora; vision

(The World Is Too Much With Us) People were no longer in touch with ________.

Nature

(The World Is Too Much With Us) In a letter he wrote about 'the decadent material cynicism of the time' and this sonnet reflects Wordsworth's near helplessness to correct the imbalance between the spiritual and material, _______ and the _________.

Nature; economy

(Ode to the West Wind) Examples of figures of speech and rhetorical devices—__________: destroyer or preserver (14).

Paradox

(Kubla Khan) But the person from ______has become a metaphor for the malicious interruptions the world throws in the way of inspiration and genius, and "Kubla Khan," strange and ambiguous as it is, has become what is perhaps the definitive statement on the obstruction and thwarting of the visionary genius.

Porlock

(The World Is Too Much With Us) ______, from Greek mythology, the Old man of the Sea, takes different shapes and can be forced to ____________.

Proteus; predict the future

(The World Is Too Much With Us) _____ is the son of Neptune, the sea god, and has the power to ___________ with his conch-shell horn.

Triton; calm the seas

(Innocence) This liberation, though, comes at a price.The ____ who releases the sweeps with "a bright key" tells little Tom if he'd be a good boy/ He'd have ____ for his father and never want joy." This stipulation is repeated in the last line: the boys "needed not fear harm" if "all do their duty."

angel; God

(Kubla Khan) As the poet explains in the short preface to this poem, he had fallen asleep after taking "an ______" prescribed "in consequence of a slight disposition" (this is a euphemism for ___, to which Coleridge was known to be addicted).

anodyne; opium

(The Lamb) What is a form in which the speaker speaks to a being who is not physically present?

apostrophic

(When We Two Parted) The poem is highly _____________ in that it recounts Byron's ________ state following the end of his secret affair with Lady Frances and his _______ at her unfaithfulness to him with the Duke.

autobiographical; emotional; frustration

(The Tyger) The tiger is _______ but also ______ in its capacity for violence.

beautiful; horrific

(Experience) This poem is notably _____ than the Innocence poem.

bleaker

(Experience) Note that we don't see ANY of the _______/_____ of Tom's dream from the Innocence poem; the color palette is remarkably _______, and the sweep is depersonalized -a ____.

brightness; green; monochrome; THING

(The World Is Too Much With Us) Wordsworth's sonnet encapsulates this quantum leap into a ___ ______; the race for profit had begun on a scale never before seen. But at what cost to the ______ ____?

cash economy; human spirit

(The Lamb) The image of the ____ is also associated with Jesus; as we know, in the Gospel, Jesus displays a special affection for ______ and the Bible's depiction of Jesus in childhood shows him as _______ and ___________.

child; children; guileless; vulnerable

A report to a parliamentary committee on the employment of child sweeps in 1818 noted that the "__________" as young as four were sold by their parents to master-sweeps, or recruited from workhouses.

climbing boys

(Kubla Khan) It is thought that the final stanza of the poem, thematizing the idea of the lost vision through the figure of the "_____ with a dulcimer" and the ____ of paradise, was written post-interruption.

damsel; milk

(My Last Duchess) The Duke is with a representative of a Count who has a _______ he wants to _____, but he has just confessed that he killed his last wife.

daughter; marry

(Ode to the West Wind) Believing family in __________ and __________ ______, he supported movements to reform government.

democracy; individual rights

(The Tyger) "The Tyger" consists entirely of unanswered questions, and the poet leaves us to wonder about the inscrutability of ____ ___.

divine will

(Innocence) What is an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener?

dramatic monologue

(My Last Duchess) What is when a speaker who addresses an imaginary audience and reveals some secret about himself or herself?

dramatic monologue

(Experience) Having forced their son into _______, teaching him to sing "the notes woe" the parents then head to _____to praise " God and his priest and king" who the boy tells us makes up a "heaven of our ______".

enslavement; church; misery

(The Tyger) Blake's tiger becomes the symbolic center for an investigation into the presence of ___ in the world.

evil

(The Tyger) Philosophically, what does the undeniable existence of ___ and _______ in the world tell us about the nature of ___, and what does it mean to live in a world where a being can at once contain both ______ and _____?.

evil; violence; God; beauty; horror

(Kubla Khan) Before falling asleep, he had been reading a story in which Kubla Khan commanded the building of a new palace; Coleridge claims that while he slept, he had a _______ _____and composed simultaneously while sleeping some ___ lines of poetry.

fantastic vision; 200-300

(Ode to the West Wind) Structure and rhyme scheme—the poem contains ____ stanzas of ________ lines each.

five; fourteen

(Kubla Khan) His hearers would recognize the dangerous power of the vision, which would manifest itself in his "__________' and "_________." But, awestruck, they would nonetheless dutifully take part in the ritual, recognizing that "he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise."

flashing eyes; floating hair

(The Lamb) The traditional image of Jesus as a lamb underscores the Christian values of _________, ________, and ________.

gentleness; meekness; peace.

(Innocence) The dream takes place in a pastoral "____ _____' of laughter and light vs. the real world of _____, city life, and the _______ economy.

green plain; darkness; capitalist

(Experience) Indeed, his _______ seems to be the REASON that parents sell him into slavery: "Because I was happy upon the heath, And smiled among the winter's snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death And taught me to sing the notes of woe.".

happiness

(Experience) The speaker, however, remains determinedly ____His instincts, like any child in Romantic writing, are ______ ____ unlike the boys in the Innocence poem, he understands his _______ fully.

happy.; positively driven; oppression

(The World Is Too Much With Us) The speaker is looking out over the water at a time of calm, thinking of the ceaseless wind and of how we are no longer in _____ with the fundamentals of _____. The words moon/tune are not fully rhymes.

harmony; Nature

(The Tyger) The opening question gives us the single focus of the poem, and each subsequent stanza elaborates on this conception: What ______ _____ or ___ , could frame thy fearful symmetry?

immortal hand; eye

(The World Is Too Much With Us) The ________ _________ was at hand, industry was booming and the poet, always sensitive to the changes in the nation's ____, grew increasingly alarmed.

industrial revolution; psyche

(The World Is Too Much With Us) Wordsworth must have been aware of the unstoppable growth of ______ and ___ _____. Like Blake, his concern was for the future ______ state of the people. His introduction of Proteus, the ever changing, frighteningly prophetic 'ancient one of the sea' who knows all things, reminds us of the sacrifices we all have to pay if 'we are out of tune' with ______ ______.

industry; mass production; spiritual; Mother Nature

(My Last Duchess) The Duke wants the look of ____ on her face to only be caused by him.

joy

(My Last Duchess) He is angry and disgusted at his wife for supposedly looking at other men. What will he do?

kill her

(My Last Duchess) The Duke confesses to the sir that he did what to his wife?

killed her

(The Tyger) The reference to the ___ in the penultimate stanza reminds the reader that a tiger and a lamb have been created by the ____ ____and raises implications of this.

lamb; same God

(The World Is Too Much With Us) Lines 13-14 The final two lines continue the theme begun half way through line 9. The speaker desires to see a return to the old times when people were in tune with the ____ and _____.

land; Nature

(Experience) Nine of the 12 lines are spoken by the sweep, but the poem begins with another speaker who spies "A ____ _____ _____ among the snow.".

little black thing

(The World Is Too Much With Us) It was a heartfelt response to the demise of the rural way of life, which had been taken over by ____________ and ___________.

mass production; factory work

(When We Two Parted) If we did not know this, however, the poem would be __________ ____, since the sex of neither the lover nor the beloved is revealed, and the poem provides virtually no clue regarding the time, place, or other setting of the poem beyond its being a place with _______ ___ (and the fact that the poem is written in an older English with the use of "thy").

mysteriously vague; morning dew

(The Lamb) The apostrophic form contributes to the effect of _______, since the situation of a child talking to an animal is a believable one, and not something simply contrived by the author.

naivete

(The Lamb) These are also characteristics from which the child speaker approaches the ideas of ____ and of ____.

nature; God

(The Tyger) Blake builds on the idea (conventional) that _____, like a work of art, must in some way contain a ______ of its creator.

nature; reflection

(The Tyger)Because the tiger's nature exists both in physical and in moral terms, the speaker's questions about its ____ must also encompass both ______ and ____ dimensions.

origin; physical; moral

(Kubla Khan) Waking after about three hours, the poet seized a pen and began writing furiously; however, after copying down the first three stanzas of his dreamt poem—the first three stanzas of the current poem as we know it-he was interrupted by a "________________," who detained him for an hour.

person on business from Porlock

(My Last Duchess) The Duke is ____, ________, and ________; he is the only one who can see the portrait.

prideful; possessive; controlling

(The Lamb) The answer is presented as a _____ or a ______.

puzzle; riddle

(The Lamb) The poem is a child's song in the form of a ________ and a _______.

question; answer

(Innocence) Let's look again at his dream—"That thousands of sweepers...sport in the wind." In reality, their lives are _____, death infected (the image of the ____ ______). However, in the dream, they are ____ , leaping, running, and playing in the wind.

restricted; black coffins; free

(The Lamb) By answering his own question, the child converts the question into a ________ one.

rhetorical

(When We Two Parted) Many scholars believe the poem to have actually been written in 1816, when Lady Frances was linked to the Duke of Wellington in a ________ __________.

scandalous relationship

As the average size of a London chimney was only ______ inches square, to encourage the sweeps to climb more quickly, ___ were 'forced into their feet' by the boy climbing behind; _____ ____ was applied for the same purposes.

seven; pins; lighted straw

A sweep might be shut on a flue for ___ hours and be expected to carry bags of soot weighing up to ___ pounds.

six; 30

(Kubla Khan) The speaker insists that if he could only revive within him "her _______ and ____," he would recreate the pleasure-dome out of ____ and ____, and take on the persona of the _______ or ______.

symphony; song; music; words; magician; visionary

(My Last Duchess) Neptune, a bronze statue that the Duke has as a piece of artwork, is symbolic of him...

taming his last wife (control)

(Ode to the West Wind) A _______ is a unit of three lines that usually contains end rhyme.

tercet

(Ode to the West Wind) Shelley wrote the tercets in a verse form called _________ invented by Dante Alighieri. In this format, line two of one tercet rhymes with lines one and three on the next tercet.

terza Rima

(Ode to the West Wind) Each stanza has _____ tercets and a closing couplet.

three

(Kubla Khan) After this interruption, he was unable to recall the rest of the _____ or the ____ he had composed in his _____ dream.

vision; poetry; opium

(The Lamb) The child's question is both naive and profound. The question "___ ______ ____?" is a simple one, and yet the child is also tapping into the deep and timeless questions that all human beings have about their own origins and the nature of creation.

who made thee

(Ode to the West Wind) Theme- the poet desires the irresistible power of the ____ to scatter the words he has written about his ______ and ______, one of which was opposition to Britain's monarchy government as a form of ______.

wind; ideals; causes; tyranny

(Experience) The imagery is typical of the Experience poems. It's set in ____, and the speaker here wears "the clothes of death" and sings "the notes of woe" (compared to _______ in the dream). Remember how the sweeps in Tom's dream are ____ and ____ of clothing, which symbolizes social convention or _______.

winter; laughing; naked; free; restriction