Industrial Revolution, Romantic Period

7 important questions on Industrial Revolution, Romantic Period

Describe iambic tetrameter

4 iambs in one line:
" That floats on high o’er vales and hills"
  da    DUM  da DUM da  DUM  da DUM

What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution (1760-1820)?

- From an agricultural nation to an industrial nation.
- From hand production to machines.
- The feeling that prosperity was bought with the poverty of many.
- The French Revolution (1789) was an inspiration.

What subjects did the Romantic Period use?

  • Nature.
  • Idealization of people.
  • The innocence of children.
  • Folklore, fairy tales, mythology.
  • Exotic cultures, distant countries.
  • The idealized past.
  • Revival of old country ballads.
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How did the Romantic period affect poetry?

Breaking with tradition, simple in form and content.
Guided by imagination, not reason.
"the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth)
Emphasis on emotions

What were the lyrical ballads?

-The Romantic period in English literature is said to have begun in 1798, the year in which William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads.
-Most poems were by Wordsworth, and many dealt with the lives of the poor in the Lake District, or the poet's feelings about nature.
-Man is part of nature, Wordsworth believed, so we should live in harmony with it, so nature can lead us to wisdom and goodness.

Who wrote the poem 'In a Station of the Metro'?

Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972)

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Who wrote the summary of Wordsworth's poem I wandered lonely as a cloud'?

Roger McGough (b. 1937)

Wandering along the road
by the lake, I saw a load
of golden daffodils
Ten thousand, give or take.

Now and then

I think of them again. 

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