11.15.2003

i was high... so i finished my english hw (i think its all of it...i hope)

1.
a. In the first stanza of �The Tables Turned,� Woodsworth feels that nature can provide a good education.
b. These words help describe how humans negatively affect things.
c. Tings can not be learned from science and art, it is futile.
2. There was the separation of American colonies and British rule � there was also the French Revolution, which made more of an impact out of the two.
3. Napoleon Bonaparte, the self proclaimed himself as the emperor of France had success in controlling almost all of Europe, except for the ocean. He experienced prosperity and late on mistakenly attempted to conquer Russia, where he was defeated. Napoleon was sent into exile but later came back only to be defeated at Waterloo.
4. There was an extreme gap between the working classes and the ruling classes � there was intense opposition from both sides.
5. The working classes who demanded reform, and the ruling classes, who resisted fiercely.
6. They focused on nature and the common people.
7.
a. Practicality: C
b. Positive thinking . . . : C
c. Exaggeration : R
d. Mannerly, proper : C
e. Moderation : C
f. Natural wildness : R
g. The supernatural : R
h. Emotions : R
i. Common experiences : R
j. Rebellion : R
8. 1798 � The publishing of Lyrical Ballads.
9. Rousseau saw society as a inhibiter to liberty and happiness � he wanted people to do what they wanted to do � freely without criticism. He listened to nature, instinct and intuition.
10. The Middle Ages fostered writers that had myth, superstition, adventure and passion.
11. �The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.� �Takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.�
12. �Incidents and situations from common life.� Romanticism also dealt with human passions with �The beautiful and permanent forms of nature.�
13. In the past nature was viewed as a force to be tamed and analyzed scientifically; the romantics looked at nature as a wild and free force.
14.
a. Byron
i. Against democracy, wrote long narrative poems that often featured brooding, passionate, rebellious figures.
b. Shelley
i. Wrote lyric poetry with intense personal and emotional verses.
c. Keats
i. Wrote lyrical poetry but died at the age of 25 with tuberculosis.

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