English 12 Mrs. Nollette BHS Name Class Key Traits 1. What are the key traits of Romantic Poetry? How is Romantic (with a capital R) different from romantic? To a Mouse Robert Burns 2. With what country / dialect is Robert Burns closely associated? 3. How does the poem s speaker feel about having destroyed the mouse s house? Cite text evidence to support your response. 4. During what time of year does the poem take place? Why does this make the mouse s situation even worse? 5. What similarity does the speaker see between mice and men? What specific line(s) in the poem support your answer? Write them here. 6. In what way does the speaker feel that his situation is worse than the mouse s? 7. What is the poem s overall theme? The Lamb William Blake 8. Besides writing, what else is William Blake known for? 9. What question does the speaker ask the lamb? Does he answer the question?
10. Who is the He mentioned in the poem? 11. What does the lamb symbolize? The Tyger William Blake 12. What is main question posed in the The Tyger? Is this question answered? 13. How does the speaker of the poem portray the tiger s creator? What specific words in the poem support your answer? 14. What literary device is contained in these lines? When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears 15. What is the central question that these two poems ( The Lamb and The Tyger ) pose to the reader? A Poison Tree William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine. And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
16. How is the anger of the speaker of A Poison Tree toward his friend different from his anger at his foe? 17. For what are the apple tree and the apple a metaphor? 18. How are the apple and the tree also an allusion? 19. What is the poem s theme (message)? What words / phrases from the poem support your interpretation? I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed and gazed but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: 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.
20. How could a cloud be lonely? Of what literary device is this an example? 21. How does Wordsworth personify the daffodils? 22. What is the poem s rhyme scheme? How does the poem s use of rhythm and rhyme help build the images in the poem (why did Wordsworth make the poem rhyme?)? 23. To what does Wordsworth compare the daffodils? WHY does he make this comparison (In other words, what does he want us to visualize?)? 24. What is the inward eye that he mentions in line 21? 25. What does he mean by the bliss of solitude? 26. What is the theme of the poem? She Walks in Beauty George Gordon, Lord Byron 27. George Gordon, Lord Byron was once described by a high society woman as mad,, and. 28. What literary devices do these lines contain? She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies a. b. 29. How does Byron describe the woman s facial features? 29. How does Byron describe the woman s thoughts? Her heart?
30. In She Walks in Beauty what does the speaker suggest about a connection between outer beauty and inner beauty? Support your response with text evidence from the poem. Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley 31. Percy Shelley was married to another famous writer. Who was she, and what famous novel did she write? 32. In what form is Ozymandias written (what kind of poem is it)? 33. What is the setting of Ozymandias? How does this setting reflect Romantic ideas? 34. In what condition is the monument to Ozymandias? Cite specific text evidence to support your response. 35. What kind of person / ruler did Ozymandias seem to be? What evidence in the poem supports this interpretation? 36. What is the inscription on the statue s pedestal? What is ironic about it? 37. What is the point Shelley is trying to make? 38. What literary device do these lines from the poem contain? How does this literary device emphasize the images and ideas in the poem? Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats 39. When the speaker of the poem addresses the urn directly, Keats is using what literary device? 40. When he describes the urn as an unravish d bride of quietness, The foster child of silence and slow time what is he suggesting about the age and condition of the urn? 42. Why does he describe the urn as a historian? 43. In Ode on a Grecian Urn, what are the pictures the speaker describes (there are 4)? 44. What does the speaker say about unheard melodies? How is this a paradox? 45. Why does he tell the lover not to grieve? 46. How is the scene of the lovers an example of a paradox? 47. Why does the speaker say the trees should be happy? 47. What questions does the speaker ask about the final image on the urn? 48. What will happen to the urn when old age this generation shall waste? 49. Beauty is, beauty. 50. What does the poem suggest about the role and importance of art?