When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had only ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?

   A. An identical rhyme structure
   B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages
   C. The sense of hope that death will come soon
   D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life

2. Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published ?

   A. 1798
   B. 1800
   C. 1801
   D. 1802

3. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ?

   A. Rime royal
   B. Ottava rima
   C. Terza rima
   D. Spenserian Stanza

4. The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal ?

   A. On the slave trade
   B. On romantic philosophy
   C. On the creativity of human mind
   D. On supernatural elements in poetry

5. Shelley’s “Ode to Psyche” is narrated by __________________?

   A. Psyche
   B. Cupid
   C. The author of the poem
   D. Shelley’s childhood self

6. “Ode to a Nightingale” focuses on ______________?

   A. How pleasures are fleeting and life cannot continue forever
   B. The fall of man into sin
   C. The futility of artistic creation
   D. The unfortunate conclusion of the French Revolution

7. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?

   A. its focus on his lost love.
   B. its rejection of scientific progress.
   C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
   D. its development of elements from national folklore.

8. In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does Shelley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre” ?

   A. To help drive his ideas across the universe
   B. To help him reach the afterlife
   C. To help him hear nature’s music
   D. To help him start a new revolutionary war

9. What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell’s\Horatian Ode\ ?

   A. praising Roman virtues whilst endorsing Christian beliefs
   B. praising feminine virtue whilst mocking the fixation on chastity
   C. celebrating Cromwell’s victories whilst inviting sympathy for the executed king
   D. celebrating the Restoration whilst regretting the frivolity of the new regime

10. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?

    A. Alexander Pope
    B. William Collins
    C. Thomas Gray
    D. Ben Jonson