Romanticism Term 1 Exam Review

 “…the great globe itself, / Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.”

 “To me he seems—I beg your Lord’s indulgence--/ a kind of grasshopper, a long- legged bug / that’s always in flight and flies as it leaps / and in the grass scrapes out its ancient litany; / I wish that he had never left the grass / to rub his nose in imbecility!”

 “As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By a woman wailing for her demon-lover! / And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, / A mighty fountain momently was forced / …It flung up from the sacred river. / Five miles meandering with a mazy motion”

 “Am I not the fugitive, the homeless roamer, / an aimless, rootless, monstrous creature, / roaring like a cataract from crag to crag, / madly racing for the final precipice?””

 “It moves us not.--Great God! 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; / Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; / Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”

 “ How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! / O brave new world, / That has such people in it!”

 “Full fathom five thy father lies; / Of his bones are coral made; / Those are pearls that were his eyes; / Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea change”

 “Water, water, every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water every where, / Nor any drop to drink.”

 “A simple Child / that lightly draws its breath, / And feels its life in every limb, / What should it know of death?”

 “…Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, / Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up / Their quiet being: and, unless I now / Confound my present feelings with the past; /Ere from the mutilated bower I turned / Exulting, rich beyond the wealth of kings, / I felt a sense of pain when I beheld /The silent trees, and saw the intruding sky…there is a spirit in the woods.”

 “Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments / Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices / That, if I then had waked after long sleep, / Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, / The clouds me thought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked, / I cried to dream again.”

 “The many men, so beautiful! / And they all dead did lie: / And a thousand thousand slimy things / Lived on; and so did I. / I looked upon the rotting sea, / And drew my eyes away; / I looked upon the rotting deck, / And there the dead men lay.”

 “If I these thoughts may not prevent, / If such be of my creed the plan, / Have I not reason to lament / What man has made of man?”

 “Very well. ( He writes in the book and returns it.) …Follow the ancient words and also my cousin the snake. / That godlike spark in you will have you quaking soon enough.”

 “Save me, Father! I am Thine! / Angels! Sacred Hosts! / Gather about and keep me! / Heinrich! / I shudder to look at you.”

 “EVIL SPIRIT: What misdeed is lodged in your heart? / do you pray for the soul of your mother, / who through your doing passed to never-ending sleep? / Whose blood stains your doorstep?--/ Is something not stirring and swelling / beneath your heart”

 Wrote the Preface to Lyrical Ballads

 Described as “the last true polymath to walk the Earth.”

 His last play was written in 1611

 Opium addiction had impact on writing & life