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1. William Blake was one of the precursors of Romanticism.Part of that romanticism was his revolt against science, industry, 'established authorities'. Some illustration of this can be found in 'The Garden of Love'? What 's the word that is missing here? ' I went to the Garden of Love And saw what I never had seen: A _______ was built in the midst And 'Thou shalt not' written o'er the door.'
2. 'Humble people' and 'simple language' were suddenly the fashion. Nonetheless poems like 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' used lots of words that even then were not 'every day language'. Which word for 'flocks' was left out here: 'Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant ______.'
3. Another quatrain from same poem. ' Save that from yonder ivy-mantled BOWER The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as wand'ring near her ANCIENT TOWER Molest her SECRET solitary reign.' Check in which order the 4 words in caps should appear. Which is the right order?
4. Who wrote this unsophisticated poem in simple language about simple people in a context of solitude and nature. 'Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray And when I crossed the wild I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child. No mate no comrade Lucy knew. She dwelt on a wide moor - The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. ?
5. This poem by Wordsworth has been tampered with. Which is the only line that is exactly as in the original: '1. Behold her alone in the field 2.Yon solitary Highland girl 3.Reaping and chanting by herself. 4. Stop here or quickly pass 5. Alone she cuts and binds the grain 6. And sings a melancholy tune 7. O listen for the deep valley 8. Is flowing over with the sound.'?
6. Who ended one of his most famous poems with these lines: 'A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn'?
7. From which poem are these lines: 'And full-grown lambs bleat from hilly {bourn;} Hedge-crickets sing and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a {garden-croft;} And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.'
8. Even a town as London could be perceived as a thing of beauty. At least when seen in a context of Sunshine and Surrounding Nature, at a Quiet Moment of Day. A number of words were changed in this version of Wordsworth's Sonnet 'Upon Westminster Bridge.' Can you give the right substitutes in the right order? 'Earth has NOTHING to show more fair Dull would he be of HEART who could pass by A VIEW so touching in its majesty. This TOWN now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning: QUIET, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and CHURCHES lie Open TO the fields and to the sky.'
9. From which ballad-like poem are these famous lines: 'O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely {loitering;} The sedge is withered from the lake And no birds sings.'
10. ' Heard melodies are sweet ,but those unheard Are {sweeter;} therefore, ye soft pipers, play {on;} Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.' From which poem?
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