Romantic and Victorian Poetry Revision

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Romantic Poetry Revision

Name four characteristics of romantic poetry.

What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? ------ Who do the immortal hand and eye belong to?

1. The Universe
2. The Christian God
3. Greek god/goddess
4. Mother Earth

What poetic devices can you find in the lines: What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

1. simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration
2. alliteration, metaphor, enjambment
3. enjambment, onomatopoeia, metaphor
4. metaphor, simile, alliteration

Did He who made the lamb make thee?------ Who does the lamb refer to?

1. Jesus
2. A lamb is a lamb is a lamb
3. An innocent human being
4. A harmless human being

Which characteristic of Romantic Poetry can you NOT find in The Tyger?

1. Imagination
2. Nature
3. Heroism
4. Emotion

What is the main poetic device you can find in all these lines?

Baffle the threat, bright Scene, from Orresthead / Given to the pausing traveller's rapturous glance: / Plead for thy peace, thou beautiful romance / Of nature; and, if human hearts be dead, / Speak, passing winds; ye torrents, with your strong / And constant voice, protest against the wrong.

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Metaphor
3. Alliteration
4. Personification

I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, ------ This is an example of a(n)...

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Alliteration
4. Volta

For oft, when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, / They flash upon that inward eye ----- What poetic device is 'inward eye'?

1. Sonnet
2. Metaphor
3. Simile
4. Enjambment

The devil mocks the doleful tale ------ Which poetic device can you find in this sentence?

1. Assonance
2. Alliteration
3. Dramatic monologue
4. Simile

What is the form of this poem? How do you know?

Find an example of a simile and explain its meaning.

Find an example of an enjambment and explain why the poet wanted to emphasise those specific words.

The devil mocks the doleful tale------ 1. Explain why the poet wanted to emphasise the words 'devil' and 'doleful'? (See excerpt from Christabel) 2. What characteristics of Romantic Poetry can you find in this excerpt?

William Blake - 

O for a voice like thunder

Loreena McKennitt - Lullaby

O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue

To drown the throat of war! - When the senses

Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,

Who can stand? When the souls of the oppressed

Fight in the troubled air that rages, who can stand?

When the whirlwind of fury comes from the

Throne of god, when the frowns of his countenance

Drive the nations together, who can stand?

When Sin claps his broad wings over the battle,

And sails rejoicing in the flood of Death;

When souls are torn to everlasting fire,

And fiends of Hell rejoice upon the slain.

O who can stand? O who hath caused this?

O who can answer at the throne of God?

The Kings and Nobles of the Land have done it!

Hear it not, Heaven, thy Ministers have done it!

Find examples of a simile, a metaphor and a personification and explain what they mean within the context of the poem.

Which characteristics of Romantic poetry can you find in this poem?

Victorian (and Romantic) Poetry Revision

Tithonus: "The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts." What gift is he talking about?

1. Eternal beauty
2. Eternal youth
3. Eternal life
4. Mortality

Tithonus: Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine, / Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team / Which love thee, yearning for thy yoke, arise,------ What is the wild team and what do they do?

1. Human servants who threaten to extinguish all the stars
2. Horses that carry the sun up into heaven every day
3. Other gods who love Aurora and want to prevent Tithonus from seeing her

Tithonus: I wither slowly in thine arms, / Here at the quiet limit of the world, / A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream --- What poetic device is 'A white-hair'd shadow'?

1. assonance
2. metaphor
3. simile
4. alliteration

Which poetic device is used more than once in this fragment?

Explain from the context of the poem why the poet wanted to stress those words/sentences.

1. Who is speaking? 2. Who is he speaking to and why?

1. Who is he talking about? What happened? 2. What does this fragment tell you about the speaker?

What characteristic of Victorian poetry can you find in this poem?

1. Why do the children think the earth is dreary? 2. Why do the children say that the graves are for the old?

What characteristics of Victorian poetry can you find in this poem?

Romantic Poetry                Victorian Poetry

What is the form of this poem? How do you know?

Paraphrase the two parts of this poem (in your own words).

Is this poem Romantic or Victorian? How do you know? Name the characteristics and find proof in the poem.

What poetic device(s) can you find in the lines: These yards, whose heaps of dust and bone / Breathe poison all around;?

Is this a Romantic or Victorian poem? How do you know? Name the characteristics and quote appropriate lines as proof for your answer.

Good luck with the test!