How do these final lines from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge affect the overall tone of the poem?
His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
In "Kubla Khan," Cole...
How do these final lines from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
affect the overall tone of the poem?
His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And
drunk the milk of Paradise.
In "Kubla Khan," Coleridge describes the creation and destruction of
Kubla Khan's palace in the _________ location of Xanadu, which gives
the poem a ____________ quality. Through the _______________________
character of Kubla Khan, Coleridge uses the wild image of the Mongols
to suggest that Kubla Khan is insane, implying that all creative
actions are the acts of __________________ men.
The last lines bring the poem to a _______________________ close.
Flashing eyes evoke the image of passionate creativity. By talking
about "holy dread," Coleridge suggests that creation is both
__________________________ and demonic.
1.) exotic location
2.) dreamlike quality
3.) historical character
4.) mad men
5.) climatic close
6.) sacred and demonic
"The World Is Too Much with Us" is a Petrarchan sonnet written by
William Wordsworth. Its first eight lines (the octet) pose a question
or problem, and its last six lines (the sestet) give a response or
solution. The problem in this sonnet's octet is that humanity has
lost its respect for and connection with nature. In the sestet, how
does Wordsworth propose to address this problem?
The World Is Too Much with Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we
lay waste our powers:Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have
given our hearts away, a sordid boon!1
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be
howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping
flowers;For this, for everything, we are out of tune;It moves us
not.—Great God! I'd rather be
,A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;So might I, standing on this
pleasant lea
2, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;Have sight of
Proteus
3 rising from the sea;Or hear old Triton
4 blow his wreathed horn.
1 favor
2 meadow
3 Greek sea -god who could change his appearance at will
4 Greek sea -god with the head and upper body of a man and the tail
of a fish
He wishes that he had been born a pagan so that he would have learned
a different way of seeing nature.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" most
reflects which romantic ideal?
belief in the supernatural
Which two sets of lines in William Wordsworth's poem reflect the
poet's view that nature's beauty can live on in our memories and
continue to delight us even after our experience with it has passed?
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by 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.
In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye
And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
What aspect of nature does the star represent in the poem?
Bright Star
by John Keats
Bright star, would I were stead fast as thou art-- Not in lone
splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids
,apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at
their priest like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,Or
gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the
moors--No—yet still stead fast, still unchangeable,Pillow'd upon my
fair love's ripening breast,To feel for ever its soft fall and
swell,Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,Still, still to hear her
tender-taken breath,And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
its constancy in contrast to the rapid changes the speaker undergoes
Which of the following is a comparison that this poem makes?
Music, When Soft Voices Die (To--)
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music, when soft voices die,Vibrates in the memory.--Odors, when
sweet violets sicken,Live within the sense they quicken.--
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,Are heaped for the beloved's bed--
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,Love itself shall slumber on.
It compares the beloved's thoughts to rose leaves that live longer
than the rose itself.
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?(excerpt from "Ode on a
Grecian Urn" by John Keats)
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,(excerpt from
"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;(excerpt from "She Walks in
Beauty" by Lord Byron)
a person's face (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
regions with relation to their weather patterns (Lord Byron)
a side of the body (John Keats)
Which two phrases in this excerpt from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John
Keats suggest that the urn represents everlasting art?
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with bredeOf marble men and maidens
overwrought,With forest branches and the trodden weed;Thou, silent
form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity: Cold
pastoral!When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain,
in midst of other woe,Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou
sayst,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is allYe know on earth,
and all ye need to know."
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity:
When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst
of other woe
Identify the meanings of the bolded words in the passage based on the
context.
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley (excerpt)
I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition, or
, to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect
upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of
bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and
strength, had become food for the worm.
The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery
soon gave place to delight and rapture. After so much time spent in
painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires, was
the most gratifying consummation of my tolls. But this discovery was
so great and overwhelming, that all the steps by which I had been
progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the
result.
receptacle: container
consummation: completion
obliterated: destroyed
What is the effect of the choice of frozen landscapes such as the
North Pole and the Swiss Alps as settings in Frankenstein?
It reminds readers of the loneliness and absolute desolation of the
characters.
In the novel Frankenstein, what is the significance of Walton's
letters to his sister at the beginning of the narrative?
Walton's letters speak of his thirst for knowledge and his loneliness,
and they introduce the novel's main themes.
Match the excerpts from Frankenstein to the themes they reflect.
isolation: "If I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor
to sustain me in dejection.I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is
true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling."
dangerous knowledge: "They have acquired new and almost unlimited
powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake,
and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows."
deceptive appearances: "I found a fire which had been left by some
wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I
experienced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers,
but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain."
revenge: "From that moment I declared everlasting war against the
species, and, more than all,against him who had formed me and sent me
forth to this insupportable misery."
In Jane Austen's time, the law dictated that a man's property was
inherited by his closest male heir instead of by the women in his
family. What was this law known as?
entailment
What inference can be drawn in this excerpt from Jane Austen's Pride
and Prejudice?
Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two
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