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Romantic Age Test

Romantic Period and Poetry

1.) An important theme in poetry during this time was__________________.

2.) England changed from a primarily agricultural society to a modern__________________

nation.

3.) Many writers felt that there was something distinctive about their time – a pervasive
intellectual and imaginative climate which they called the
“__________________________”. It was a release of energy, experimental boldness, and
creative power that marked a literary renaissance (an age of new beginnings).

4.) The_______________________ expressing the poet’s own feelings and temperament,

became a major Romantic form.

5.) Wordsworth believed that the source of all poetry was not in external things, but in the
___________________ poet.

6.) The________________________________ resulted from the invention of power-driven

machinery replacing hand labor.

Which Author?

1.) Wrote in the simple language of the “common man”.________

2.) Rejected the past and wanted to find his own way of doing things from within
himself.________

3.) Planned Utopian communities._________

4.) Was shy and sensitive from one point of view—from another a very unruly.________

5.) Saw education as a means of gaining dignity and was afraid of being: ‘branded with the
name of a dunce.’_________

6.) Had elaborate word choice and sensual imagery in his writing._________

A.) Samuel Coleridge D.) William Blake

B.) Lord Byron E.) John Keats
C.) Percy Shelley F.) William Wordsworth
Who Wrote?

1.) She Walks in Beauty________ A.) William Blake

2.) The World is Too Much With Us________ B.) Lord Byron

3.) Ode to the West Wind________ C.) John Keats

4.) The Tyger________ D.) Samuel Coleridge

5.) Ode to a Nightingale________ E.) Percy Shelley

6.) Kubla Khan_________ F.) William Wordsworth

Who Said?

1.) All good poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”_________

2.) “I must create my own system or be enslaved by another mans.”__________

3.) “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty.’- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to
know.”_________

4.) “I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon
ourselves.”________

5.) “As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale – my dreams become the
substances of my life.”________

6.) “A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put
himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species
must become his own.”_________

A.) William Wordsworth D.) Lord Byron

B.) Samuel Coleridge E.) John Keats
C.) William Blake F.) Percy Shelley
 Essays:
Choose two essay questions to explore in one, full paragraph each. Each essay is worth 10 points.

1.) Choose one poet from the Romantic Age and explain their contribution to the literary world.
2.) Explore themes in literature during this time (providing examples from text we have read would
strengthen your essay).
3.) Discuss one poem we read in class (what it meant to you, what you think the author meant,
literary elements within the work---metaphors, similes, etc.).
4.) What effect did the Romantic period have on the world?

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