LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry?
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An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems
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A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems
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A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works
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A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron’s poems
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem Lines Written in Early Spring written by William Wordsworth discusses nature and its relation with human beings. Through the poem the poet laments about the disruptive relationship between humans and nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -A poetic unit of three lines, rhymed or unrhymed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poem imagines events at the coastal cliffs of Beachy Head from across England’s history, to meditate on what Smith saw as the modern corruption caused by commerce and nationalism. It was her last poetic work, and has been described as her most poetically ambitious work.
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