A. The French Revolution
B. Man’s relationship to nature
C. The experience of common people
D. A celebration of the aristocratic
Related Mcqs:
- Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?
A. Charles Lamb
B. Jane Austen
C. William Hazlitt
D. Oliver Goldsmith - Which of the following statements would you most likely NOT see in a Romantic poem ?
A. “Truth is beauty … ”
B. “Truth is stranger than fiction …”
C. “Familure acts are beautiful through love …”
D. “A little learning is a dangerous thing…” - Which of the following Romantic poets would have been most likely to write a poem celebrating the innocence of childhood ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. William Blake
D. William Wordsworth - The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?
A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems - Which Romantic poet would be most likely to feature a main character or narrator in a poem who is heroic, tortured, cynical, highly emotional, and intelligent ?
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. Lord Byron
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem ?
A. William Blake
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Lord Byron
D. Percy Shelley - Which long Romantic poem opens with the line “oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze” ?
A. “The Prelude”
B. “Don Juan”
C. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
D. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” - Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?
A. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.
B. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.
C. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.
D. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene. - H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?
A. Objectivist poetry
B. Futurist poetry
C. Imagist poetry
D. Vorticist poetry - Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by …/I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?
A. His political views
B. His will to imaginative freedom
C. His will to sexual freedom
D. Both B and C
