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- A. A powerful, sublime force
- B. A peaceful force
- C. Depressing and miserable
- D. Controlled by gods
Explanation: In Mont Blanc, the mountain and surrounding landscape represent nature's immense, awe-inspiring, and potentially terrifying power.
Correct answer: A powerful, sublime force- A. Influenza
- B. Tuberculosis
- C. Fever
- D. Suicide
Explanation: Keats died of tuberculosis, then commonly called consumption, in Rome in 1821.
Correct answer: Tuberculosis- A. Sincere and heartfelt
- B. Mocking and satirical
- C. Mournful and dark
- D. Polemic and dry
Explanation: Byron’s dedication of “Don Juan” attacks and mocks fellow poets, especially Robert Southey, rather than offering a sincere tribute.
Correct answer: Mocking and satirical- A. Fanny Brawne
- B. Dorothy Wordsworth
- C. Mary Shelley
- D. Mary Keats
Explanation: John Keats’s great love was Fanny Brawne, to whom he became engaged in 1819.
Correct answer: Fanny Brawne- A. William Wordsworth
- B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- C. William Blake
- D. Lord Byron
Explanation: The celebration of satire and the openly mocking treatment of human folly are strongly associated with Lord Byron, especially in “Don…
Correct answer: Lord Byron- A. Percy Shelley
- B. John Keats
- C. Lord Byron
- D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Explanation: These lines come from Shelley’s elegy “Adonais,” written to mourn John Keats.
Correct answer: John Keats- A. The passion between a husband and wife
- B. The loss of innocence
- C. The horrors of the French Revolution
- D. How poets can bring about political revolution
Explanation: Shelley presents the West Wind as a force that can carry his ideas among humanity, like scattered leaves or sparks.
Correct answer: How poets can bring about political revolution- A. William Wordsworth
- B. John Keats
- C. Percy Shelley
- D. William Blake?
Explanation: William Blake’s poetry is filled with visions, angels, spirits, and symbolic supernatural figures, especially in works such as “The…
Correct answer: William Blake?- A. William Wordsworth
- B. William Blake
- C. Percy Shelley
- D. Lord Byron
Explanation: “Spots of time” is Wordsworth’s term for powerful memories that preserve emotional and spiritual insight from the past.
Correct answer: William Wordsworth470. Duncan Wu rejects the assertion that Wordsworth's Lucy poems were primarily about ______________?
- A. Death
- B. Perception
- C. Exhaustion
- D. Love
Explanation: Duncan Wu challenges the view that Wordsworth’s Lucy poems are primarily love poems.
Correct answer: Love- A. The abolition of slavery
- B. The equality of all people
- C. The innate brilliance of children
- D. The beauty of common language
Explanation: “The Little Black Boy” exposes racial prejudice by presenting spiritual worth as independent of skin colour.
Correct answer: The equality of all people- A. William Blake
- B. Lord Byron
- C. William Wordsworth
- D. John Keats
Explanation: The brooding, ironic, intellectually self-conscious hero is a hallmark of Byron’s poetry, especially the Byronic hero.
Correct answer: Lord Byron- A. Not an atheist
- B. In love with Lord Byron
- C. Suicidal
- D. Fiercely anti-war
Explanation: Shelley’s radical politics included a strong commitment to pacifism and opposition to war, making him fiercely anti-war.
Correct answer: Fiercely anti-war- A. An expression of love for common man.
- B. Mockery toward William Wordsworth.
- C. An expression of doubt and angst.
- D. Dark humor.
Explanation: Byron often expressed sympathy for ordinary people, while his poetry is well known for satire, doubt, angst, and dark humour.
Correct answer: An expression of love for common man.- A. Most Romantic poets were politicians
- B. Poets have no actual effect upon the world
- C. Poets actually help the world grow and develop
- D. Hardly anyone actually reads Romantic poetry
Explanation: Shelley’s phrase presents poets as forces that shape society’s ideals, values, and imagination, even without holding political office.
Correct answer: Poets actually help the world grow and develop- A. A celebration of the city's beauty
- B. A protest against social inequality
- C. An examination of the city's past
- D. An attack on William Wordsworth
Explanation: Blake’s London exposes poverty, oppression, child exploitation, prostitution, and the restrictions imposed by social institutions.
Correct answer: A protest against social inequality- A. William Wordsworth
- B. John Keats
- C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- D. Lord Byron
Explanation: Wordsworth, Keats, and Coleridge are especially identified with lyrical treatment of nature, while Byron is more strongly associated with…
Correct answer: Lord Byron- A. The little girl refuses to cast the dead out of her life.
- B. The little girl is insane or delusional
- C. The little girl's siblings have not died
- D. The little girl herself is dead
Explanation: The child continues to count her dead siblings among the living because emotional and familial bonds remain real to her.
Correct answer: The little girl refuses to cast the dead out of her life.- A. The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world
- B. The fall of Satan
- C. The life of Blake
- D. The history of London
Explanation: The paired poems contrast the freedom and trust of innocence with the oppression, corruption, and painful knowledge of experience.
Correct answer: The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world- A. William Blake
- B. Lord Byron
- C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- D. William Wordsworth
Explanation: William Blake received little public recognition during his lifetime but became highly influential after his death, especially through the…
Correct answer: William Blake