৩৬তম BCS — Romantic & Victorian Poetry প্রশ্নসমাধান

এই পরীক্ষায় ৪টি প্রশ্ন — Lyrical Ballads, Solitary Reaper, Coleridge, Wordsworth as poet of nature।

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প্রশ্ন ৪২: The romantic age in English literature began with-

Options: (a) Preface to Shakespeare • (b) Preface to Lyrical Ballads ✓ • (c) Preface to Ancient Mariners • (d) Preface to Dr. Johnson

Romantic Age — Birth and Manifesto

• Lyrical Ballads (1798) — Wordsworth + Coleridge — marks the START of Romantic Age
• Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800, 2nd edition) — Wordsworth's poetic manifesto
  • 'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.'
  • Subject matter from ordinary life, language of common people

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প্রশ্ন ৪৮: 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by-

Options: (a) W.H. Auden • (b) W. Wordsworth ✓ • (c) Yeats • (d) Ezra Pound

'The Solitary Reaper' (1807)

• Inspired by a Highland girl Wordsworth saw singing in Gaelic
• Theme: The mysterious power of music; the lone working-class figure as poetic subject
• Famous lines: 'Behold her, single in the field, / Yon solitary Highland Lass!'

Wordsworth's Major Poems

Poem	Year	Theme
Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge)	1798	Manifesto of Romanticism
The Solitary Reaper	1807	Lone singer's beauty
Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)	1807	Joy of nature
Tintern Abbey	1798	Memory and nature
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	1804	Childhood and divine
The Prelude	1850	Autobiography in verse

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প্রশ্ন ৫২: Which writer belongs to the Romantic period?

Options: (a) Tennyson • (b) Pope • (c) Dryden • (d) S.T. Coleridge ✓

The Big Six Romantics

Poet	Years	Famous Works
William Wordsworth	1770-1850	Lyrical Ballads, Prelude, Daffodils
S.T. Coleridge	1772-1834	Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
Lord Byron	1788-1824	Don Juan, Childe Harold
P.B. Shelley	1792-1822	Ode to the West Wind, Ozymandias
John Keats	1795-1821	Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn
William Blake	1757-1827	Songs of Innocence and Experience

NOT Romantic — Quick check

• Tennyson — Victorian (1809-1892)
• Pope — Augustan/Neoclassical (1688-1744)
• Dryden — Restoration (1631-1700)

Memory trick — 'Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Blake'

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প্রশ্ন ৫৯: 'Child is the father of man' is from-

Options: (a) W. Wordsworth ✓ • (b) Coleridge • (c) Shelley • (d) Swinburne

'My Heart Leaps Up' (1802) — Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
...
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

Meaning of 'Child is father of man'

• Our adult selves are shaped by our childhood
• Childhood is more important than adulthood in forming character
• Used as epigraph to Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality'

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প্রশ্ন ৬২: Who is known as 'The poet of nature'?

Options: (a) Tennyson • (b) Milton • (c) William Wordsworth ✓ • (d) Keats

Wordsworth — The Lake Poet

• Lived in the Lake District (northwest England)
• Wrote almost entirely about nature
• Universally called 'The Poet of Nature'

Famous Wordsworth lines on nature

• 'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'
• 'Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.'
• 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.'

Other 'Poet of ___' titles

Title	Poet
Poet of Nature	Wordsworth
Poet of Beauty	Keats
Poet of Skylark	Shelley
Poet of Childhood	Blake
Poet's Poet	Spenser
People's Poet	Burns

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টপিকটি গভীরে শিখুন

Romantic & Victorian Poetry — মূল লেকচার শিট — Romantic Movement causes, Wordsworth-Coleridge collaboration, Victorian poets (Tennyson, Browning, Arnold), pre-Raphaelites, complete poem-year-poet matching for BCS।