World Literature

ASUCQ

HOMEWORK: ROMANTIC POETRY

Read the poems included in the Romantic Poetry reading PDF. Answer the following questions
with short answers.

1 In the first poem, Tom has a dream about “thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, &
Jack.” What does Tom dream happens to these boys? Use your own words.

2 In the second poem’s final stanza “And because I am happy, & dance & sing, / They
think they have done me no injury, / And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King,
Who make up a heaven of our misery.” Who is “they” in this stanza?

3 What impression do you get from William Blake’s poem “London”? How does
he feel about the city?

4 What effect do the daffodils have on the speaker in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?”

5 What is the speaker in “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” looking at? How does
it make him feel?

6 What happened to Lucy in “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways?” How does
the speaker feel about this?

7 In your own words, describe the scene described by the poem “Ozymandias.”

Write two discussion questions about the poems that we could discuss in class:

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