QUESTION BANK

ROMANTIC POEMS

1. "The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two
parts in _________ in 1789 and _________ in 1794.
a. ‘Songs of Innocence’ & ‘Songs of Experience’
b. ‘Songs of Experience’ & ‘Songs of Innocence’
c. ‘The Book of Thel’ & ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’
2. In the _________centuries, boys of four and five were sold because of their small
physical size to work as chimney sweepers.
a. 16th & 17th
b. 17th & 18th
c. 18th and 19th
3. “The Chimney Sweeper” is a _____________.
a. Soliloquy
b. Dramatic monologue
c. Interior monologue
4. By the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English
poets.
a. William Blake
b. William Wordsworth
c. John Keats
5. The famous sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" was written by
_________
a. P. B. Shelley
b. Lord Byron
c. John Keats
6. Ballads were usually written in a particular metre comprising alternating lines of
____________.
a. iambic tetrameter and trimeter
b. iambic tetrameter and pentameter
c. iambic pentameter and trimeter
7. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ recalls the ________ not just in its content – knights,
faeries, and the like – but in its very form.
a. Neoclassical Age
b. Middle Age
c. Renaissance Age
8. La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ______ phrase meaning The Lady Without Mercy.
a. Latin
b. Greek
c. French
TRUE/ FALSE (correct the false statement)
1. John Keats was an English poet, painter and printmaker. True/false
_______________________________
2. William Blake was born in London, United Kingdom. True/false
_______________________________
3. The name of the little boy in “The Chimney Sweeper” was Tom Blake. True/false
_______________________________
4. "The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two
parts in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. True/false
_______________________________
5. John Keats was among the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord
Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. True/false _______________________________
 6. "Ode to a Nightingale", "Sleep and Poetry", and the famous sonnet "On First Looking
into Chapman's Homer" were written by William Blake. True/false
_______________________________
7. Like some of the old ballads, “La Belle Dam Sans Merci” deals with human
misery. True/false _______________________________
8. Ballads are often cyclical in that the final stanza takes us back to the first stanza.
True/false _______________________________
Questions:
17. Discuss the theme of unrequited love in ‘La belle dam sans merci’.
18. Discuss the theme of impossible love in ‘La belle dam sans merci’.
19. How does ‘La belle dam sans merci’ fulfil the criteria of a ballad?
20. Describe the form of ‘La belle dam sans merci’.
21. Describe the style of ‘La belle dam sans merci’.
22. What is the main idea of ‘La belle dam sans merci’?
23. Discuss the theme of childhood in ‘The chimney sweepers.’
24. Discuss the theme of religion in ‘The chimney sweepers.’
25. Why is “The chimney. Sweeper” narrated in first person?
26. How do we find ‘The Chimney Speaker’ romantic?)
27. Questions on name of poet and poem
28. Question on alliteration