Brit Lit Exam One

What is a Poet?

Wordsworth

Emotion Recollected in Tranquility

Wordsworth

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Wordsworth

We Are Seven

Wordsworth

My Heart Leaps Up

Wordsworth

Lines Written in Early Spring

Wordsworth

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

Wordsworth

The World is Too Much with Us

Wordsworth

Mutability

Wordsworth

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Wordsworth

The Eolian Harp

Coleridge

Kubla Khan

Coleridge

Dejection: An Ode

Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Coleridge

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Keats

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

Keats

When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be

Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Keats

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

In Xanadu did [he]

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Kubla Khan

Not in entire forgetfulness,

And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God, who is our home:

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Which poem is about daffodils?

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

What Romantic theme is conveyed in We Are 7?

Innocence vs Experience

What is the purpose of poetry?

It provides pleasure, truth, and beauty

'Tis midnight, but small thoughts have I of sleep:

Full seldom may my friend such vigils keep!

Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing,

And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,

Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!

With light heart may she rise,

Gay fancy, cheerful eyes,

Joy lift her spirit, joy attune her voice;

Dejection: An Ode

The thought of our past years in me doth breed

Perpetual benediction: not indeed

For that which is most worthy to be blest;

Delight and liberty, the simple creed

Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest,

With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:—

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

The World is Too Much with Us

What is the central theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

Love all living things, respect all living things, and you'll be rewarded. If not you will face consequences

Kubla Khan

Power of Imagination

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Beauty is eternal

We Are Seven

Child’s view of death

The World is Too Much with Us

Critique of Materialism

Dejection: An Ode

Loss of inspiration

Lines Written in early spring

Nature and lost joy in it

On seeing the Elgin marbles

Art and Mortality

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Memory’s power in nature (daffodils)

The rime of the Ancient Mariner

Guilt and redemption (Albatross)

My heart leaps up

Joy in childhood

When I have fears that I may cease to be

Fear of Dying young

Emotion recollected in tranquility

Reflection creates poetry

On first looking into Chapman’s Homer

Awe of New Knowledge

Ode: intimations of immorality

Childhood’s fading wonder

The eolian harp

Creativity and divine inspiration

What is a Poet?

Poet as deep thinker/ pleasure, beauty, truth

mutability

Everything changes eventually

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

City’s beauty at dawn

Ode to a nightingale

immortal song of nature

What are some Romantic themes?

Nature, innocence vs experience, beauty & truth, change, past