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Poetry English Quiz
Quiz: Poetry and Romanticism
Term | Definition |
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Motives for romanticism 1800's | Imagination and Escapism Individuality Find spirituality in Nature Looking to the past for wisdom Finding a hero in the common man |
Germany | Johann Wolfgang |
Great Britain | William Wordsworth Lord Byron The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
United States | Edgar Allen Poe Washington Loving |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Setting | Wedding. The "wedding guest" misses the wedding. |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Who tells his story? | The "bright eyed Mariner" tells his story |
What comes in part one of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | A storm with mist, snow, and ice. |
Albatross | Large bird of "good omen" |
What does the Mariner do at the end of part one? Why did he do this? | He shoots the Albatross and kills it. He did it because he felt like it; just because. |
After Albatross dies, what happens? How does the crew react? | They lose wind. The crew curse the Mariner for killing their "good luck", the albatross |
After the crew curses the Mariner, what do they transition back to? | The crew then praise the mariner because though they lost the wind, at least they're now out of the ice. |
Begin to thirst - drought | "water, water everywhere" |
Finally, what does the crew then do to the Mariner? | Makes him hang the albatross around his neck. |
Who are the two people that approach the Mariner and his crew's boat in part 2? | The woman, "Life in death" and "Death." |
What are the two doing and what happens? | The woman, Life in death, wins as she and Death are casting a dice. Then, 200 crew die and they curse Mariner as their souls are lifting away. |
What happens in the beginning of part 4? | Mariner wishes for death because he is haunted with curses. He soon sees slimy snakes and blesses them instead of killing them like he did with the albatross. Albatross falls from neck. |
Part 5 of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Crew arises, spirit propels ship. |
Lesson learned for the Mariner | God loved the albatross. Penance will do. |
Seraphic band | Franciscans |
Boat in part 6 | The pilot, pilot's boy, hermit |
What does pilot's boy think of Mariner? | That he was the devil |
Mariner gets sucked into a whirlpool. who saves him? | The Hermit |
What does the Mariner do after all this happened? | He goes from land to land and tells his tale. *LIFE IN DEATH He is a sadder but wiser man (in which he makes the wedding guest to be as well) |
Lepanto poem - Don John of Austria | begins a crownless prince but ends as an epic hero. |
Lepanto poem - Mahound | Mahound has become a demi god |
Lepanto poem - Who has the power over the Mahound? | Poor hermits and followers of St Anthony. |
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