Lit Romanticism Quiz

What is the central theme of Longfellow's "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"?

Human life is finite, but nature is infinite.

What is the meter of Bryant's "Thanatopsis"? 

Blank Verse

Which adjectives best describe the shift in tone in Bryant's "Thanatopisis"?

anxious to calm

Why did Whitman chose to write in free verse?

to express his individuality

to celebrate democracy

to convey a sense of freedom

How many poems does "Song of Myself" contain?

383

In section 6 of "SoM," the speaker muses that grass may be the following:

a representation of the speaker's character, God's handkerchief, and the speaker (after death).

What can you infer about the poet's attitude from these lines in "Song of Myself"? "These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, / If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing

Whitman believes that his observations are, in some sense, universally shared.

Which best describes the form of "A Silent Noiseless Spider"?

Conceit- compares two extremely dissimilar things, stretching this comparison throughout a poem or passage

Alliteration

repetition of initial consonant sounds map/moon kill,code

Onomotopea

words that mimic there meaning

Elegy

mourns or laments the loss of a loved one or the loss of the past

Sonnet

a fixed poetic form with a structure traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme

Anaphora

Intentional repetition of words and phrases at the beginning of successive lines

What are the five principles of Romanticism?

Individuality, Idealism, Imagination, Intuition, and emphasis on nature.

Assonance

Repitition at close intervals of vowel sounds

Blank verse

unryhmed iambic pentameter

Cataloging

use of long lists to create unity in a poem

Who used Catologing

Walt whitman in Leaves of Grass

Couplet

two successive lines that rhyme

Free verse

no regular meter or consistent rhyme

What are the five types of imagery

visual, auditory, olfactory(smell), gustatory (taste), and tactile (touch)

Tone

The expression of attitude

How is Bryants Thanatopsis written?

Blankverse

Bryants Thanatopsis goes from (tone)

Fear Melancholic tone to calm and peaceful

Bryants Thanatopsis is romantic because?

We are one with nature. Our fear of death is taken away by the beauty of nature, we are going to nourish the earth when we die. Dying is simply going to sleep. Everyone experiences it.

What is the central idea of Song of Myself

identity, individuality, and the interconnectedness of all beings.

Central idea of When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

preference for a naturalistic view of the world over an analytical one

Central idea of A noiseless Patient spider

isolation and the innate drive to connect

How is A Noiseless patient spider romantic

Your sould is like parts of the earth, sometimes busy, sometimes isolated

In A march in the ranks hard prest and the road unknown, how have darkness and the unknown taken a new meaning

They have become a way for soldiers to move on and continue life (death is peaceful)

What does A march in the ranks hard prest and the road unknown show us

The switch from optimism to pessimism (bc of the civil war)

What is the central idea of A march in the ranks hard prest and the road unknown

depicts the brutal, chaotic, and traumatic reality of the American Civil War by focusing on a retreating soldier's glimpse into a makeshift, hellish field hospital