"The World is Too Much With Us" By William Wordsworth (40-42)
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When was William Wordsworth born?
1770
When did William Wordsworth die?
1850
Where was William Wordsworth born?
Cumberland
Cumberland is a famous scenic region in England also referred to as the…?
Lake District
How many siblings did William Wordsworth have?
Four
Which school did Williams Wordsworth attend as a boy, where he indulged in nature in addition to his education?
Hawkshead
Where did William Wordsworth go after Hawkshead school, where he became disenchanted by the competitive nature of his studies?
St. John’s College
In what year did William Wordsworth find solace in an extended summer walking tour of Revolutionary France?
1790
Who were French revolutionaries fighting against for social and economic equality during the French Revolution?
The Ancien RĂ©gime
William Wordsworth was a part of which era?
Romantic
William Wordsworth was part of a group of English poets called the ______, who lived in what is now Cumbria, England.
Lake Poets
Who were three notable members of the Lake Poets?
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
Besides geographic residence, what grouped the Lake Poets together?
Writing about relations of man and nature
Who critiqued the Lake Poets, calling their poetic scope narrow?
Lord Byron
What was a main feature of William Wordsworth’s poems that contradicted the popular poetry of the preceding periods?
Representing common folk as his subjects and using vernacular in his poetry
William Wordsworth’s poems reflect a revolt against _________________.
Aristocratic social and political norms
Who wrote “The Prelude” and “Michael”
William Wordsworth
Who criticized the Industrial Revolution for its treatment of workers and its despoliation of nature, particularly the introduction of trains to the Lake District?
William Wordsworth
When was “The World is Too Much With Us” published?
1807
“The World is Too Much With Us” is an example of a…?
Sonnet
How is an English sonnet written?
14 lines of iambic pentameter
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
The last sestet provides a response or answer to the first octave
Which famous individual wrote over 150 English sonnets?
William Shakespeare
The Petrarchan sonnet is sometimes referred to as the…?
Italian sonnet
Which type of sonnet features three quatrains and a rhyming couplet?
Shakespearean sonnet
What is a quattrain?
Stanza of four lines in poetry
What is a rhyming couplet?
Pair of rhyming lines
Which Italian term means “turn,” and describes a shift in a poem?
Volta
What was a common theme in Romantic poetry present in “The World is Too Much With Us”
Humanity’s alienation from nature
In line four of “The World is Too Much With Us,” which two words juxtapose each other, suggesting that advantages provided by widespread availability of material goods are overshadowed by humankind’s loss of wonder at the world?
“Sordid” and “Boon”
Which poem can be seen as elegiac in that it laments the disconnect between humans and nature as humans come to favor the artificial?
“The World is Too Much With Us”
Which term describes a literary technique in which the speaker addresses an absent or invisible person?
Apostrophe
Who does the speaker of “The World is Too Much With Us” appeal to in line 9, using an apostrophe in doing so?
God
After line 9 of “The World is Too Much With Us,” the speaker alludes to gods of which mythology?
Greek
In line 5, how does the poet of “The World is Too Much With Us” reference the Sea?
As a woman
Which two Greek gods are directly mentioned by the poet in “The World is Too Much With Us”
Proteus and Triton
Where did William Wordsworth live from 1813 up to his death in 1850?
Rydal Mount