STUDY GUIDE FOR TEST TWO

I. Know titles of major works by these three authors:

1. Robert Burns: Tam O’Shanter, “To a Mouse,” Scottish songs, “Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn.”

2. William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey”; “Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” The Prelude, The Recluse, sonnets

3. Samuel Coleridge: “The Eolian Harp”; “Kubla Khan”; “Frost at Midnight”; “Christabel”; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

4. William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience; Book of Thel; Milton, The Four Zoas, Jerusalem, The Book of Urizen, Marriage of Heaven and Hell

II. Know these phrases: On the test, I’ll group them together and ask you, “Who said it?”

a. Robert Burns’ “The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley” “O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us”; “Should old acquaintance be forgot,/ and never brought to mind? / Should old acquaintance be forgot, / and old lang syne?

b. Wordsworth: “spots of time,” “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!”; “a Pope / Is summoned in, to crown an Emperor” “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her”; “Though nothing can bring back the hour / Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; / We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind; / In the primal sympathy / Which having been must ever be” “I'd rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn”; “I felt the sentiment of Being spread / O’er all that moves and all that seemeth still; / O’er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought / And human knowledge, to the human eye / Invisible, yet liveth to the heart; / Over all that leaps and runs, and shouts and sings, / Or beats the gladsome air; o’er all that glides / Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, / And mighty depth of waters”

c. Coleridge: "He prayeth well, who loveth well / Both man and bird and beast. / He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us, / He made and loveth all."; “Day after day, day after day, / We stuck, nor breath nor motion; / As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean. / Water, water, every where, / And all the boards did shrink; /Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.

d. “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright” “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans” “Bring me my bow of burning gold / Bring me my arrows of desire / Bring me my spear! Oh, clouds unfold! / Bring me my chariot of fire!”; “Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? /Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?” “I have also the Bible of Hell, which the world shall have whether they will or no”; To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

III. Extended passage analysis. You can choose two of the four and then will identify the author and four Romantic characteristics in each:

Could I revive within me,

Her symphony and song,

To such a deep delight 'twould win me,

That with music loud and long,

I would build that dome in air,

That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

And all who heard should see them there,

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

Weave a circle round him thrice,

And close your eyes with holy dread,

For he on honey-dew hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise. Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”

And thus, my Love! as on the midway slope

Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon,

Whilst through my half-clos'd eye-lids I behold

The sunbeams dance, like diamonds, on the main.

And tranquil muse upon tranquillity;

Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd,

And many idle flitting phantasies,

Traverse my indolent and passive brain,

As wild and various as the random gales

That swell and flutter on this subject Lute!

And what if all of animated nature

Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd,

That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps

Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,

At once the Soul of each, and God of all? (“Eolian Harp”)

OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze,

A visitant that while it fans my cheek

Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings

From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.

Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come

To none more grateful than to me; escaped

the vast city, where I long had pined

A discontented sojourner: now free,

Free as a bird to settle where I will.

What dwelling shall receive me? in what vale

Shall be my harbour? underneath what grove

Shall I take up my home? and what clear stream

Shall with its murmur lull me into rest?

The earth is all before me. With a heart

Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty,

I look about; and should the chosen guide

Be nothing better than a wandering cloud

I cannot miss my way. Wordsworth, The Prelude

For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour	90
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,	100
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey”