British Literature

Lord Byron

Achieved fame with his semi-autobiographical narrative poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Spenserian Stanza

consists of nine lines, the first eight in iambic pentameter and the ninth in iambic hexameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc

Percy Shelley

Poetry depicts the individual’s struggle against social oppression

Ode

a long lyric poem that is elevated in style, generally serious in theme, and structured with a complex stanza

Terza Rima

a verse form i which three-line stanzas (tercets) interlock in the following rhyme pattern - aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on

Shelly

regarded his poetry as an instrument of revolution and reform that could help lead to a golden era of peace and freedom

Creatures

What are the slimy things he refers to as

Yes

Does the wedding guest learn the lesson

Byronic hero

What was Byron’s most influential literary contribution

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Byron achieved fame with what narrative poem

Sublime

Byron sought to inspire a sense of what

Prometheus Unbound

What was Shelley’s masterpiece

1820

What year was Prometheus Unbound published

John Keats

produced some of the finest lyric poetry ever written in English

Euphony

agreeable sounds, especially in the phonetic quality of words

Cacophony

jarring, discordant sounds

Aestheticism

devotion to beauty (and therefore to art) as the highest human concern

Imagination

Romantics used what to view the world

Individual

Romantics elevated the needs of the what

Time and place

What are the 2 ways a romantic can achieve distance

Society

What romantics were corrupt

Blank verse

What verse did romantics like to write in

Wordsworth

Who is the leader of the romantic movement

Lyrical ballads

What did Wordsworth publish

1798

What year were Lyrical ballads published

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What author did he compose lyrical ballads with

Daffodils

What kind of flowers was wordsworth observing

Nature

What does he think will heal an individual

Classical illusion

What does he use in the world too much with us

Nature

What helped him mature as a man

God

What has he replaced with nature

Sister

Who is he talking to about wanting to experience nature the same way

Narrator

Who is narrating the outer frame tale

Mariner

Who is narrating the inner frame tale

Guit

What does the albatross symbolize

Love nature

In order to change the guilt what does he need to do

Put the albatross along his neck

What did the shipmates do when they were upset

Life in death or death

Who was on the ghost ship

Gambling

What are they doing on the ghost ship

200

How many were there on the ship

Yes

Did they drop dead staring at him

Hermit

When he gets back to land, who is in the boat that rescues him

Telling the story

What is his consequence for killing the albatross

Yes

Are the wedding guests changed by hearing the story

Dynamic

What kind of character is the mariner and wedding guest

Isolated, rebellious, arrogant, comfort in nature

What are the main characteristics of a byronic hero

Ocean

In a child's hero pilgrimage what is he talking to

Power

What Is he comparing the ocean and humanity to

Night sky

What does he compare her beauty to

Revolution

Shelly regarded poetry as an instrument of

3

How many voices are in it

Situational

What irony is used

Revolution

In England 1819 what does he give the hope of

Preserving and destroy

In ode to the west wind what 2 aspects of the wind is he discussing

Old regime

What is he hoping it would destroy

His thoughts as seeds

What does he want to spread around

John Keats

Who died tragically young at 25

Boating accident

How did Shelley die

Beauty

What can we achieve in art

No

Does he have hope after death