The Romantics

Question 1

Who wrote Ozymandias?

Answer 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 2

Who wrote London?

Answer 2

William Blake

Question 3

Who wrote The Prelude?

Answer 3

William Wordsworth

Question 4

Who wrote She Walks In Beauty?

Answer 4

Lord Byron

Question 5

Who wrote To Autumn?

Answer 5

John Keats

Question 6

What is the context for London?

Answer 6

• Critique of corruption of industrial rev.
• Rev. mobs marching into Paris to overthorw king, written at time of overthrowing things
• Political RADICAL
• Proposed new social order
• Songs of Innocence = reveres nature
• Songs of Experience = hatred of establishment and lack of freedom

Question 7

What is the form and structure for London?

Blake

Answer 7

• Regular form (like song)
• Clear AB rhyme scheme, childlike/nursery rhyme
• Begins in Iambic tetrameter but lines fall out of pattern, representing failing hope in establishment????

Question 8

What is the context for The Prelude?

Wordsworth

Answer 8

• Great autobiographical poem
• Published after death
• Critique of corruption caused by Industrial revolution
• Modern condition = dangerous, need to revert to child like eyes
• Humans should follow ideals rather than rules
• Innocence of child encapsulates romantic PREOCCUPATION with PRELAPSARIAN state of WONDER

Question 9

What is the form and structure of The Prelude?

Wordsworth

Answer 9

• Free verse (reserved for epics, making childhood epic)
• Unrhymed, iambic pentameter highlights FREEEDOMM
• First person speaker = personal and empathetic

Question 10

What is the context for She Walks In Beauty?

lord Byron

Answer 10

• Patriarchal society and mysogenistic view of women
• Allegedly written after Byron saw mourning woman at party
• Sensual imagery evokes sense of sublime
• Closer with nature closer to beauty???
• Elevated style conveys transendental power of imagination

Question 11

What is the form and structure of To Autumn?

Answer 11

• Odal hymn
• Rhyming couplet to finalize each stanza and giev a sense of peace and harmony
• Symbolism of Autumn overfilling world with joy and nature
• Or impending / unfinished awkwardness

(11 line stanzas rather than the classical 10 -abundance of nature)

Question 12

What is the form and structure of She Walks in Beauty?

Answer 12

• Triptych stanza evokes cohesive beauty
• Iambic tetrameter -> natural /rhythmic
• Fits natural flow and movement of bodies (heartbeat)

Question 13

What is the form and structure of the prelude?

Answer 13

• Iambic pentameter
• Appropropriates epic form for a narrative about childhood freedom
• Blank verse

Question 14

What is the form and structure of Ozymandias?

Answer 14

• fragmented (pentameter) sonnet form

Highlights power of poet as he can fragment /appropriate classic form and his confidence of his power as a poet
Subverts classical form

Question 15

What is the from and structure of London?

Answer 15

• Regular form
• Loose iambic tetrameter mimics walking rhythm
• Monosyllabic, childish rhyme scheme like a nursery rhyme