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Identify title and author of this work. Who is “he” that is mentioned, what is the “thought,” and what does the passage show about that thought?  Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he proposeA stratagem, that makes the beldame start:  

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Give at least three characteristics of a Sonnet and briefly explain its significance to the British Romantic period. You might name Romantic period writers of sonnets.  

Identify the poet, poem, and speaker. What statement is the speaker making about living beings, human and non-human? How does the speaker partially retract this later in the poem?Beware, lest in the worm you crush A brother’s soul you find;And tremble lest thy luckless hand Dislodge a kindred mind.  

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

       If I should die, think only this of me:             That there’s some corner of a foreign field       That is forever England.  There shall be             In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;       A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,             Gave, once her flower to love, her ways to roam,       A body of England’s, breathing the English air,             Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.

Identify: Comedy of manners

                                  Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten’d    …                           … While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,           We see into the life of things

Choose one of the following topics and write a well organized and well developed essay comparing two of our three literary periods.  Argue a thesis or claim on the topic using at least two literary works, one from each period, as specific examples.  While you may want to point out similarities between periods, try to define some differences between periods that show shifts in attitudes across time that become apparent in literary texts.  You are welcome to use more than one example from a period and you may discuss the issue as it applies to all three periods if you like.  Just be sure to use at least one example from each period you discuss.  Industrialization, commercialization, science, and/or technological progress Attitudes toward the poor and/or social reform The social position of women or views about female desire Religious institutions, spiritual concerns, and/or religious faith Patriotism, militarization, and/or expansion of the empire Education

He stood still in the gloom of the hall, trying to catch the air that the voice was singing and gazing up at his wife.  There was grace and mystery in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something.  He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of.  If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude.  Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones.  Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.