Romantic Period Test Review
"The best laid plans of mice and men. . ."
1. How long did the Romantic period last?
2. One of the main influences on the Romantic period was political
revolution, especially the French Revolution. Another was industry. England
was changing rapidly from an agricultural society to an industrialized one. Know
this and other influences of the Romantic period.
3. Why did some of the poets of the Romantic period feel betrayed by
the French Revolution?
4. Where does Napoleon meet his Waterloo? What country is
responsible for his defeat?
5. What does the term laissez-faire mean?
6. How is Romantic poetry different from Restoration poetry?
7. According to the Romantic poets, what was the best response to
change? Is that still true today?
8. What poets dominated the early Romantic period?
9. What poets dominated the later part of the Romantic period?
10. What did Romantic poets emphasize in their poetry?
11. How were the aristocrats in England responding to the French Revolution in terms of
change within their own country?
12. What is dialect poetry? Which of the authors that we read wrote using Scottish
dialect?
13. What is "tone"?
14. What are the characteristics of lyric poetry?
15. What is imagery?
16. What do we mean when we refer to the speaker of a poem? Is the speaker always
the author?
17. What does the term "sound" refer to in a poem?
18. What is the poem "To a Mouse" about?
19. What is "The Poison Tree" about?
20. What is the selection from "Intimations
of Immortality" about?
21. What is "The World Is Too Much with
Us" about?
22. What is "I Have Visited Again"
about?
23. What does "Ozymandias" say about
power?
24. Be able to see alliteration in a line of poetry.
25. What is the poem "She Walks in Beauty" about?
26. Be able to see simile in a line of poetry.
27. Be able to see metaphor in a line of poetry.
28. What is the poem "England in 1819" about?
29. What is the poem "When I Have Fears" about?
30. Which of the three most prominent later Romantic poets lived past 50?