William Wordsworth Background

In what year did Wordsworth move to France?

• 1789

• 1792

• 2012

• 1791

Wordsworth shifted poetry’s focus to what?

• Objectives truth

• Experience of the individual

• Rational thinking

• Human rights

Where was Wordsworth born?

• The Great Lakes reagion

• The city of London

• The Lake District

• The city of Southampton

As a student he was inspired by ….

• The ideals of the French Revolution

• Neoclassical poetry

• Life in the city

• Cambridge professors

Around 1794 Wordsworth meets another poet named?

• Jane Austen

• Jonathan Swift

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• William Blake

Wordsworth’s early poetry was hugely successful.

• True

• False

What two things happened in his life in 1850

• He died

• He published his greatest masterpiece

• He moved back to London

• He left France

His poetry is most famous for….

• Celebrating life in the city

• Celebrating science

• Celebrating humanity’s mysterious relationship with the universe

• Celebrating humanity’s mysterious relationships with God

Enjambment is when….

• You jam your finger in the car door

• Grammatical units flow from one line to the next

• Jam is mixed with cement

• Romantic poets rhyme odd lines in a poem

Repose means

• To lie at rest

• To stand in a new position

• A move in fencing

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