Literature Questions

Fancy refers to the case where such pre-existing elements are simply arranged, but not ... by their arrangement

This continuity between human beings and ... is the central argument of Wordsworth's "..." (in Lyrical Ballads)

Keats questions Wordsworth's idea of ...: "the egotistical sublime".

Wordsworth and France: He attended Cambridge University, and while a student made walking trips to Switzerland and France. W. returned to France in 1791, and was caught up in the popular enthusiasm of the .... In The Prelude he wrote: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ But to be young was very heaven!"

Christabel" (1801); unfinished) a ... of demonic possession

Wordsworth used the sonnet to treat a political theme, in which of his poems?

—....(composed 1805, published 1850): a long poem in ... about how nature formed Wordsworth's imagination; an epic of the self.

...” (1798), perhaps the most famous Romantic poem, in which the speaker thinks back on how his encounters with nature have determined his emotional life.

Lyric is one of the three traditional "kinds" of poem, along with ... poetry. ... was traditionally the least valuable kind

In his preface, Wordsworth put into question the traditional distinction between ...

English was perceived by eighteenth-century writers as really two languages: a ..., used by educated people, which was rational, civilized, and abstract; and a ..., closer to the passions.Throughout the period 1791-1819, petitions to Parliament, seeking to expand the right to vote, were rejected because their language was "vulgar".But Wordsworth claimed that the language of uneducated people was ...

We have seen that the Romantic poets placed emphasis on the expression of... in poetry. They introduced, or re-introduced lyric forms like the ballad and the sonnet. And they explored the possibilities of poetic form to make writing more ...

Second important aspect of lyric poetry is resemblance to the forms of ...": repetition or recurrence, refrain, rhyme, rhyme pattern, stanza pattern, etc.;

Mid-18th c. onward: emphasis on ...: emotion, not reason, defines human nature.

As a consequence of this emphasis on emotion in poetry, the forms of poetry changed. In the early 18th c., the basic form was the ... =two lines of .... Used especially for ..

In 1816 Keats decided to devote his life to poetry; became friends with the republican journalist and poet ... They were often attacked for being

The poem Ode to a Nightingale ends with the speaker in an..., unsure of what he has experienced: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music — Do I wake or sleep?

Keats talks about ....: "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason"

Jerusalem (1804): Blake wanted to avoid the "monotony" of meter, and so "produced a .... in every line".

"Ode to a Nightingale" is about..., where "but to think is to be full of sorrow". The speaker addresses a nightingale, who seems to represent ... he wants to join the nightingale in the world of nature. As in many of Keats's poems, the speaker is led to question "fancy", the imagination, and poetry itself.