Chapter6復(fù)習(xí)題答案

1、Chapter 6Directions : Please fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.1. English Romanticism is generally defined to begin in 1798 with the publication of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge ' s, and end in 1832 with ' s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in

2、Parliament. ( Lyrical Ballads , Sir Walter Scott)2. The Romanticists split into two groups because of the differentattitudes towardthe capitalist society. Some romanticists reflected the thinking of those classes which had been ruined by the bourgeoisie. They returned to the feudal past and idealize

3、d the life of the Middle Ages to protest against capitalist development. They are considered to be conservative and passive romanticists who are represented by, and. (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey)3. Other romanticists expressed the aspiration of the laboring classes. T

4、hey held out an ideal of future society free from oppression and exploitation. They were the firm supporters of the French Revolution, who are represented by, , and. They are considered to be radical and active romanticists. (George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelly, John Keats)4. Unlike enlightener

5、s who celebrate reason and rationality, romanticists paidgreat attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. Personified nature plays an important role in the pages of their works. They are characterized with 5 I ' s: , , , , and. (imagination, intuition, idealism, inspiration, individua

6、lity)5. “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling recollectedin tranquility “ is the poetry principle proclaimed by Wordsworth. It ' s taken from, the publishing of which marks the beginning of British Romanticism. ( Lyrical Ballads )6. is considered“the father of the hist

7、orical novel " which opensup to fiction the rich and lively realm of history. He is best known for his work. (Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe)7. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is. (poetry)8. Romanticism declined in the mid century. Roman

8、tic poetry gave way toworks and romantic prose was superseded by and inthe mid to late 19th century. (19th, symbolist, naturalism, realism )9. Pre-romanticism and Romanticism originated amongthe conservative groups of men of letters as a reaction against Enlightenment and found its most expressionin

9、 the “Gothic novel . But the more important pre-romanticist writers are the two famous poets,and. (William Blake, Robert Burns)10. is regarded as the founder and forerunner of pre-romanticism. His works are reputed for its originality and inventiveness in form andtechniques. (William Blake)11. Of al

10、l the romantic poets of the 18th century, is the most independent and the most original. His best poems are collected inSongs ofInnocence and Songs of Experience . (William Blake)12. The best of William Blake ' s short poems are to be found in these two little collections of lyrics, and . The fo

11、rmer depicts the happy condition of a child before it knows about the pains of existence, in which lies the beauty and virtues, while the latter with an14.is regarded as the nativepoet of Scotland, who wrote in the Scottishmiserable.( Songs of Innocence , S ongs of Experience) The stanza “A little b

12、lack thing in the snow, /Cryingweep! ' weep!"innotes of woe! / “Where are thy father and mother Say!" / -They are bothgoneup to the church to pray. /“ is taken from by. Inthispoem, the color images ofandmake a perfectcomparison.(The13.entirely different theme, draw pictures of the dist

13、ress and sufferings of theChimney Sweeper , William Blake, black, white)dialect. He also created many lyrics of them are collected in the Poems ,Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect15.16.17.18.19.20.praising nature, love, and friendship. Most anthology . (Robert Burns;)The rhyme scheme in the stanza “Til

14、l a ' the seas gang dry, my dear, /And the rocks melt wi' the sun! /And I will luve thee still, my dear, / While the sands o' life shall run. " is. (a-b-a-b)In the stanza “Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, / The birthplace of Valor, the country of Worth; / Wherever I

15、 wander, wherever I rove, / The hills of the Highlands forever I love.","farewell " ,"valor , and"rove" respectively mean , , and .( “saygoodbye" ,"courage" or "bravery " ,"wander" or"roam") wrote some patriotic poems, in whi

16、ch he expressed his deep love for his motherland, such as “ My Heart ' s in the Highlands . (Robert Burns), and are referred to as the“ Lake Poets because they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England.(William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey)In “She Dwel

17、t amongthe Untrodden Ways , depicts a life of obscurity about a beautiful girl named . (William Wordsworth, Lucy)The stanza “ No Nightingale did ever chaunt / More welcome notes to weary bands, / Of travelers in some shady haunt, / AmongArabian sands: /A voice so thrilling ne' er was heard / In

18、spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,/ Breaking the silenceof the sea / Amongthe farthest Hebrides. " is taken from by. Here, “chaunt " , "weary" , and "shady haunt“ respectively mean, , and . ( "The Solitary Reaper , William Wordsworth, “chant" ,"tired " ,&q

19、uot;oasis in the desert ")21. is probably the best poet of Lake Poets in depicting nature. His“Daffodils , also called described his unexpected encounterwith the daffodils sparkling beside the lake. (William Wordsworth, “I WanderedLonely as a Cloud ")22. In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic

20、 poet went to Greece to help thatcountry in its struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long, he died of feverthere. (George Gordon Byron)23. George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems:Childe Harold ' sPilgrimage and. ( Don Juan)24. As a leading Romanticist, Byron ' s chief

21、contribution is his creation of the , a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin, strong build, with disrespect for privilege or tradition and an idealism to right all the wrongin a corrupt society. The figure is, to some extent, modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes

22、Byron famous both at home and abroad. (Byronic Hero)25. As one of the active Romanticists in England, was gentle and kind by nature. He glorified freedom, exposed tyranny and expressed his sympathy forthe oppressed. His best poem is often believed to be, in whichthe west wind is seen as the embodime

23、nt of revolution spirit. (Percy ByssheShelley; "Ode to the West Wind " )26. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind" is an epigrammatic ?ep? g?'m?t? k line by. (P. B. Shelley)27. The plot of Shelley ' s lyrical drama is borrowed from a play28.29.30.31.32.of the Greek traged

24、ian Aeschylus. (Prometheus Unbound)The rhetoric device used in “ Drive my dead thoughts over the universe / Likewithered leaves to quicken a new birth! is(simile/personification)(a poetic form) are generally regarded as Keats and mature works. (The odes)“Beauty is truth, truth beauty. " is a fa

25、mous line frommost importantOde on a Grecian Urnby. (John Keats)During the Romantic period, American literature from the dependence on English literature, . (Renaissance)The center of America ' s Romanticism is inbegan to flourish and shook free which is called America ' sAmerica ' sRoma

26、nticism found its main expression in. Ralph Waldo Emerson is regarded as the founder and cheerleader of New England Transcendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism. With its emphasis on spirit and individualism,Transcendentalism made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America.(New

27、 England, Transcendentalism)33. In “The Poetic Principle , Edgar Allan Poe declares is the aim ofpoetry and is the most perfect tone. He concludes andcould make intimate alliance, thus the death of a beautiful woman is the mostpoetic is a poemin memory of a beautiful woman, which is a perfect combin

28、ation of and. (beauty, melancholy, death and beauty,“To Helen death and beauty)34. In the s tanza "Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche / How statue-like I see theestand, / The agate lamp within thy hand! / Ah, Psyche, from the regions which/Are Holy Land!" ,"thee" ,"Psyche&quo

29、t; and "Holy Land " respectively mean, , and . (“you" ,"soul " (Psyche is thepersonification of the soul in Greek mythology), the biblical region of Palestine)35. To some extent, it can be said that modern American poetry is to find its sources in the two founts, and, two best-known American poets in the 19th century. Thematically, they both extolled America ' s expansion, individualism, and Americanness. In technique, they both showed great independence. (Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson)36. , the most distinguished American poet in the 19th century, is aself-m