Romantic Poetry

Why is the knight in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" so pale and ill?

• The woman he met has physically injured him with a sword.

• The other kings and princes have taken the lady away from him.

• He has been emotionally enslaved by the woman.

• He has missed the harvest season and has no place to live.

What element in nature best thrills the speaker in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"?

• daffodils

• clouds

• waves

• loneliness

Which is NOT a value of Romanticism?

• reason

• imagination

• individualism

• nature

In “The Lamb,” the central symbol is

• a lamb representing the child speaker’s purity

• a lamb representing a sacrifice

• a lamb representing innocence

• a lamb representing the evil nature of humanity

Which word best describes the structure and sound of "Lines Written in Early Spring"?

• rigid

• simple

• unnatural

• fantastic

In "Darkness," what is unique about the one specific dog mentioned?

• The dog starts the fire that causes everything to burn.

• The dog tries to protect, rather than eat, its master's corpse.

• The dog survives the end of the world and lives on in darkness.

• The dog is more cruel than any of the humans.

"Ode on Melancholy" BEST fits which of the following tenets of Romanticism?

• Passionate Emotion

• Nature as a Source of Spiritual Nourishment

• Idealism of the world

• An Innate Goodness and Innocence in Humanity

When the speaker of the poem refers to the Greek goddesses, Lethe and Psyche in "Ode on Melancholy," he is using the literary device of _____________.

• apostrophe

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

Which tenet of Romanticism do these lines BEST represent?

For oft when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude,

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the Daffodils.

• Imagination Over Reason

• Nature as a Source for Spiritual Nourishment

• An Innate Goodness and Innocence in Humanity

• Passionate Emotion

Which tenet of Romanticism do these lines BEST represent?

For he calls himself a Lamb:

He is meek & he is mild,

He became a little child:

I a child & thou a lamb,

We are called by his name.

Little Lamb God bless thee.

• Imagination Over Reason

• Nature as a Source for Spiritual Nourishment

• An Innate Goodness and Innocence in Humanity

• Passionate Emotion