Romanticism Quest

A perilous Journey that will require great imagination. To be victorious on this quest for knowledge, one must forget the mind and instead listen to the heart.

Rules

Two types of questions:

Team Questions for team points (majority of the questions) To answer a team question:

Your team must be the first to write it on an answer sheet and hold it up in the air.

Individual Questions for individual mystery prizes hold on to your bag until the end of the game

At the top of the slide you will see !! Individual Questions !! and all of the questions on that slide will be individual.
You must stand up and be called on

To answer an individual question:

Round One (No books or notes allowed)

Name the two Lake Poets:

Wordsworth & Coleridge Lord Byron, or any other Byronic hero

Who is the classic irresistible bad-boy?

Which Blake poem would belong in his Songs of Experience?

The Tyger

The 2nd generation poets were associated with what country?

Italy

!! Individual Questions !! Which Blake poem would belong in his Songs of Innocence?

The Lamb

Composed upon Westminster Bridge was unusual for a Romantic because it praised the beauty of what?

A city

It was widely known that Coleridge had a _____ problem, which led to the creation of Kubla Kahn.

Drug

What is the poetic device used in this line?

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Alliteration

Which group of literary figures believed in the noble savage the Neoclassicists or the Romantics?

Romantics Closer to Nature & live simplistically

Why?

Which poet wrote When I have fears that I may cease to be?

Keats

What was the name of the poet who married the author of Frankenstein?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

What economic philosophy set up the injustices that the Romantics rebelled against?

Laissez Faire

Round 1 Final Question

After Byron read this poem in manuscript form, he urged Coleridge to publish it, probably because it epitomizes the Romantic ideals of imagination and the exploration of dreams. What is the name of the poem? Kubla Khan

Round 2 Books & Notes Allowed

Name the poem:

What men or gods are these? What maidens loath? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Ode on a Grecian Urn

What is the title of the poem that contains the following lines?
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away The World is Too Much With Us

!! Individual Question !! Which poem best describes a lizard moment?

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

What literary device is used in the following line?

The river glideth at his own sweet will. Personification

What type of events were going on throughout the world, but not in England at this time?

Revolutions

Beauty was a concept that especially the 2nd generation of poets explored. Name two poems that explore the concept of beauty (Byron & Keats).

She Walks in Beauty & Ode to the Grecian Urn

The role of the Romantic poet was similar to the role of the

Anglo-Saxon bard or scop

Name the poem: Teach me half the gladness

That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then as I am listening now. To a Skylark

What type of poetry focused on personal feelings rather than telling a story?

Lyric

What is the fundamental irony of Shelleys Ozymandias?

The king boasted of his might, but his monument is now in ruins.

!! Individual Question !!

Shelleys Skylark is an example of what form of poetry?

Ode

The Gothic novel gave its readers the ability to let readers share their _____ about the ages suffering, injustice and other unseen evils

Fears

Round 2 Final Question

Name a Byronic Hero not already mentioned in class.

Round 3 The journey continues!

How did the Romantics create the musical sounds in their lyric poetry?

rhyme, rhythm, alliteration and onomatopoeia.

In Byrons She Walks in Beauty, what in the womans appearance does the speaker praise? (first stanza)

She is a combination of all that is good of dark & bright

In Byrons She Walks in Beauty, does the dark represent evil?

No; it represents the dark, sad, lonely (etc.) times.

Name one other female, gothic writer.

Charlotte Bronte

Wordsworth said that a poet is a _____ speaking to _____.

Man, men. Wordsworth

Which man was the poet laureate of England?

Shelleys Ode to the West Wind is written in a particular structure with an interlocking, three-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc and so on that is called

Terza Rima it was originally devised by Dante for The Divine Comedy

Which poet died from Tuberculosis? Keats The speaker in the selection from Byrons Childe Harolds Pilgrimage identifies very closely with what inanimate object?

The Ocean When the poet addresses something that cannot respond.

What is an apostrophe?

Despite the growing urban culture, many in the Romantic period were ___ about rural life. Nostalgic; pastoral scenes became popular.

Round 3 Final Question

Dylan Thomass poem, Do not go gentle into that good night is an example of what form?

Terza Rima

Round 4: Books & Notes might not help you

Blakes The Lamb displays that the Romantics Valued and were fascinated by ______ and ______.

Youth and innocence The Augustan poets wrote in a time of order restored to a society badly in need of it, and thus they celebrated order and happy rule.

Why did the Neoclassicists value order?

Why did the Romantics rebel against order?

The Romantics, on the other hand, lived in a society badly in need of social changes, in a time of revolution

!! Individual Questions !! What is Byron saying about the ocean in the following lines from Childe Harolds Pilgrimage? Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin his control Stops with the shore; upon the water plain The wrecks are all thy deed

The ocean is more powerful than mankind

From the Romantic viewpoint, should the world be explained or be experienced?

Experienced

In the following selection from Blakes The Chimney Sweeper, what issue of the Industrial age is being discussed? When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep! weep! weep! So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. Child Labor In Byrons She Walks in Beauty, what is the relationship between the appearance and personality of the woman being admired? That outward appearance directly relates to ones personality (pretty = good person)

Round 4 Final Question

Robert Burns is a Scottish Romantic who was famous for writing the Scottish dialect. The following quote is from his poem, To a Mouse, where the speaker is a farmer who has plowed up the house of a mouse. This quote is an example of the fact that Romantics valued ________ and ________ language. Thy wee-bit housie, too in ruin! Its silly was the wins are strewin!

(silly was = feeble walls)

Simple and Unadorned