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21. The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.
A. Songs of Innocence B. Songs of Experience
C. Poetical Sketches D. Lyrical Ballads
22. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision,” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to ______.
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. George Gordon Byron
18. Wordsworth’s ______ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.
A. “To a Skylark” B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”
C. “An Evening Walk” D. “My Heart Leaps Up”
20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ______.
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth
C. John Keats D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration.
A. “To a Skylark” B. “The Cloud”
C. “Ode to Liberty” D. Adonais

13. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from ________.
A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” B. Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of Grass
C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D. John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”
12. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.
A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. Robert Southey
7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.
A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Keats
2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.
A. “Ode to Liberty” B. “Ode to Naples”
C. “Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England”

14. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT
________.
A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B. “An Evening Walk”
C. “Tinter Abbey” D. “The Solitary Reaper”
15. William Blake’s ________ marks his entry into maturity.
A. Poetical Sketches B. Songs of Innocence
C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell D. Songs of Experience
1. One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.
A. “Ode to Liberty” B. “Ode to Naples”
C. “Sonnet: England in 1819” D. “Men of England”

10. Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.
A. “To a Skylark” B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”
C. “An Evening Walk” D. “My Heart Leaps Up”
11. William Blake’s work ______ marks his entry into maturity.
A. Songs of Experience B. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
C. Songs of Innocence D. The Book of Los
12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____.
A. “The Cloud” B. “To a Skylark”
C. “Ode to a Nightingale” D. “Ode to the West Wind”
20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.
A. Poetical Sketches B. A Defence of Poetry
C. Lyrical Ballads D. The Prelude
8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.
A. the poetic romance B. the poetic movement
C. the poetic revolution D. the poetic reformation
10. Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth
C. George Gordon Byron D. John Keats
14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Robert Southey
C. William Wordsworth D. William Blake
17. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．George Gordon Byron
19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.
A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’ B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D．John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
5．William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.
A．youthhood B．childhood
C．happiness D．sorrow
12．Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.
A．Adonais B．Queen Mab
C．Prometheus Unbound D．A Defence of Poetry
13．The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ______.
A．William Wordsworth B．Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C．Robert Southey D．William Blake
14．All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.
A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B．“An Evening Walk”
C．“Tintern Abbey” D．“The Solitary Reaper”
20．English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.
A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament
B．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads
C．the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste Land
D．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament
18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?
A．Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
C．“Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D．Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.
A．pros B．dramaC．novel D．poetry
7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（　　　）.
A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically set
B. the poet’s fear of the predator
C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation
10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except（　　　）.
A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter
D. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
12.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by（　　　）.
A. J. Keats B. W. Blake
C. W. Wordsworth D. P. B. Shelley
13.The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by（　　　）.
A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake
C. John Keats D. Lord Gordon Byron
14. Shelley’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from ______ .
A. the Bible B. a German legend
C. a Greek play D. One Thousand and One Nights
7. “Drive my dead thought over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?
[A]Synecdoche. [B]Metaphor.
[C]Simile. [D]Onomatopoeia.
21.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .
[A]normal contemporary speech patterns
[B]humble and rustic life as subject matter
[C]elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
[D]intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
42. “When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’ d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”
Questions:
A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?
B. Whom does the “he” refer to?
C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
42. “Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave’s intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic’s level powers”
(From Shelley’s“ Ode to the West Wind”)
Questions:
A. In what form is the poem written?
B. What does the quotation“ the sense faints picturing them” mean?
C. What idea does Shelley express in this poem?
41. Wherefore, Bees of England, forge
Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
That these stingless drones may spoil
The forced produce of your toil?
Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the lines are taken.
B. What do you know about the poem’ s writing background?
C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?
41. Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! For the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
Questions:
A. Identify the poet.
B. What’ s the rhyme scheme for the stanza?
C. What’s the theme of the poem?
41. Wherefore feed and clothe and save
From the cradle to the grave
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?
Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.
B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?
C. Whom does “drones” refer to?
41. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep；
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)
Questions：
A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?
B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?
C. What does the poem decribe?
42. “When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
Questions：
A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken
B. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?
C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
41．“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
they flash upon that inward eye”
Questions:
A．Identify the anthor and the title.
B．What does the phrase “inward eye” mean?
C．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.
42. “Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
(William Wordsworth’s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” September 3, 1802)
Questions:
A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line mean?
B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”?
C. What idea does the fourth line express?
42. “A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
－Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.”
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.
B. Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.
What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor
46. Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
45. What’ s the literary style of Shelley as a Romantic poet?
49. How is Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound different from the traditional Greek interpretation?
1. What are the main characteristics of the Romantic Movement in Europe?
49. Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you have learned to support your ideas.
49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.