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34 Cards in this Set
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Mary Robinson |
London's Summer Morning- The one with the Nows About all the different business and peoples getting going to start the day Suggests a beauty in the cycles of man kind, when observed |
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William Blake |
The Lamb The one where a young boy instructs a lamb on the truth of God and his dominion over them. The poem has a child talking to a lamb, which makes light of the subject and suggest that the child is only reciting what he has heard to an animal which can pay no heed. This undermines the religion as a bunch of repetition fed to sheep. |
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William Blake |
The Tyger The one about the tiger Blake questions what type of God would create such innocence and such vicious creatures on the earth, or why man has such a dualistic nature. |
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William Blake |
The Chimney Sweeper (innocence) The one where a young boy is sold into chimney slavery and has a dream of heaven, which contents him to toil away his mortal life. This again is on the surface religious, but beneath carries an allegorical meaning, which could be in relation to the common people being to focused on the after life to realize they are being abused.
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William Blake |
The Chimney Sweeper (experience) This is the one where again religion is spun as a force which distracts people from what is important. The chimney sweepers parents have neglected to tend to their child because of their religious tendancies |
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William Wordsworth |
Lines Written in Early Spring This is the one where Wordsworth laments on mankind's loss of appreciation and wonder in the world around them. "What man has made of man" |
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William Wordsworth |
Expostulation and Reply This is the one where he presents the idea of wise passiveness, just as the eyes always see and the ears always hear, the mind is always thinking and by sitting and reflecting upon the world around him he allows his mind to freely expand. OF literal knowledge, he sees no value, because of all the the topics, the arguements are never ending and will never arrive at any conclusion, why must we still be seeking? |
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William Wordsworth |
The Tables Turned This is the one where Wordsworth again remarks on mankind's lack of appreciation for the natural world. We have broken down the natural forms and waste our times in books. When there is so much beauty around us |
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William Wordsworth |
Lines: Composed Above Tintern Abbey This is the one where he returns to tintern to reflect on his past and in his sister he sees an inspiration of his past self. She and this place, and them being there again together, makes him remember how much he loves nature and how much the memories of these moments mean to him. |
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William Wordsworth |
Preface to Lyrical Ballads The One where Wordworth Defines poetry as a power of the transmission, preservation, and release of human emotions which have flown over and beyond their normal bounds |
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William Wordsworth |
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud This is the one where Wordworth is remembering the field of daffodils |
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William Wordsworth |
My Heart Leaps up Wordsworth expresses his eternal joy over the natural world and rainbows. He will always remain this way, in the love with the world and cherishing them with a nautraul piety that is not commanded from anyone but inspired by beauty |
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William Wordsworth |
Composed on Westminster Bridge This is the one where William is overtaken by the beauty of morning from a bridge over river and the dawn sun blanketing it all |
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William Wordsworth |
The World is Too Much With Us William is speaking against mans appetite against natural beauty and wonder. He says he would rather be a pagan, where at least they appreciated the awesome might of natural through their deities attributes |
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Dorothy Wordsworth |
The Alfoxden Journal The one where Dorothy relates her experiences with William during early spring and Dorothy encounters all manners of budding and arriving life |
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Dorothy Wordsworth |
The Grasmere Journals Dorothy tells more stories of her time with William and what she observed as she went about their lives |
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Dorothy Wordsworth |
Grasmere - A Fragment |
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Dorothy Wordsworth |
Thoughts on my Sick Bed This is the one where Dororthy receives flowers and reflects upon the many joys of her life which includes a reference to many of Wordsworth's poems |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
The Eolian Harp The one where Coleridge is resting with his wife Sara and while he remarks on the natural beauty of the Eolian Harp, he speculates on humanity as such harps who spring to life through God's wind over them, it his wive's presence which reminds him to walk humbly with God. |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison This is the one where Coleridge can't go out with Wm, Charles, and Dorothy. He hurt is foot so he laments on his absence from their frolicking. HE notices however that even the isolated bits of nature which surround him are ample enough for the inspiration of Nature's beauty |
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Samual Taylor Coleridge |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner This is the one where a decrepit sea mariner comes up on a wedding guest and relates to him the dire consequence of not appreciating each of God's works as a holy relic, through a tale of him killing the Albatross while out at sea and suffering the Death of his crew and nearly himself before it was all over |
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Samual Taylor Coleridge |
Kubla Kahn This is the one where Coleridge has an Opium induced vision and records it roughly in a tale of Kublai Khan, who founded the Mongol dynasty and had a 15 mile walled in paradise |
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Samual Taylor Coleridge |
Our Imagiantion or Esemplastic Power This is the one where Coleridge defines the distinction between Imagination, which is the repitition of the Eternal act of creation, and Fancy, which is a dramatized version of Choice and the moment. |
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Samual Taylor Coleridge |
Occasion of Lyrical Ballads This is the one where Coleridge explains his purpose behind the Lyrical Ballads, which is to redefine the ordinary as the extra ordinary. To explain this Coleridge rambles about the importance and divinity of imagination, and the role it plays in the mind of the poet |
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Jane Taylor |
The Star This is the one where Taylor gives us twinkle twinkle little star, expressing a marvel in the unknown existence of these sparkling night decorations |
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George Gordon, Lord Byron |
She Walks in Beauty this is the one where Byron examines the contrasting beauty of his cousin on her wedding day. a great example of bringing out the divine in a mortal subject |
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George Gordon, Lord Byron |
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving this is the one where Byron claims to give up his life of promiscuous nightly outings and surrender the light of the moon to another |
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George Gordan, Lord Byron |
Fare Thee Well this is the one where Byron bids farewell to his wife and daughter, he remarks on whether or not his daughter will be taught the word father even though she will not have one and laments on his and his wife's parting as a fate worse than death |
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Mary Cockle |
Reply to Byron's Fare Thee Well this is the one where Mary Cockle, the wife addressed in Fare Thee Well, dismisses Byron's pleading poem as a pathetic and false attempt to invoke emotions where they do not belong. He shrugs off his duties as a husband and father, he seems ignorant of the laws and honorable customs in society. and Lies in the poem to misconstrue the situation in his characters favor |
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Mary Cockle |
Lines Addressed to Lady Byron this is the one where Mary sends a warning to Lady Byron regarding his decietfulness and treachery as a human being and a spouse |
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Percy Besshe Shelly |
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty this is a poem about Shelley moving through the shadows of lie to find a truth found by the faculty of his own thinking |
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Percy Besshe Shelly |
Ozymandius this is the one about Ramses II and the nothing that remained around his proud declaration the individual is nothing |
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Percy Besshe Shelly |
A Defence of Poetry this is the one where Shelley speaks to the power of poetry as a enlightening force such as language began as acts of ongoing poetry than established morals then built religions and now exceed human wisdom as a divine inlet of eternal truths |
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly |
The Last Man this is the one where Mary Shelley contemplates the importance of a stimulated imagination through the discovery of the Sibyl leaves and losing his life to their pursuit |
