Why did the night appeal to the Romantics more than the day?
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Less Knowable
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Why was the natural world Romantic poetry's primary subject?
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Its ability to stimulate emotions and imagination
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Which wordsworth poems is considered to be the fullest statement of the Romantic imagination?
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"Tintern Abbey"
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In "Tintern Abbey" why does Wordsworth believe he looks at the world differently than de did five years previously?
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He now sees the connection between all things
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Who was Wordsworth's co-writer for Lyrical Ballads?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Why in Lyrical Ballads did Wordsworth chose to focus on people from "humble and rustic life"?
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There were closer to nature
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In Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," What dies the Mariner's killing of the albatross represent?
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An attack on nature
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why did John Constable include a cathedral in so many of his paintings?
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to symbolize God's permanence in nature
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why does the vase in "ode on a Grecian Urn" fascinate John Keats?
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The eternal beauty of its art
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Why in Constable's paintings are humans figures usually so small?
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To emphasize nature's immensity and indifference
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Why were the Romantics so attracted to the sublime - the prospect of anything beyond the human mind to understand?
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It is limitless and unbounded
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Why did Romantic artists such as Thomas Cole see America as having so much potential?
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Its vast tracts of wilderness
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According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, what was transcendentalism's fundamental principle?
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The spirit's oneness with nature
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Why did Henry David Thoreau begin his experiment of living at Walden Pond?
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To Live Simply
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Which historic figure was considered the personification of the Romantic hero?
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Napoleon
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Why did the Romantics revere Prometheus?
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For being a suffering but noble champion of human freedom
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In a Defense of Poetry, what did Percy Shelley claim was the role of poets?
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To change the world
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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, why does the creature embark on a quest for revenge against Dr. Frankenstein?
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For creating him from dead body parts
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In Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, why does the hero commit suicide?
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For falling in love with a married woman
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In Goethe's Faust, why does the title character sell his soul to the devil?
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Profound boredom
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why did Francisco Goya paint The Third of May, 1808, with such graphic reality?
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To show the horrors of war
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How did Herman Melville's view of nature differ from that of other Romantics?
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It was a challenge, not an inspiration
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Why did Beethoven eventually view his deafness and its isolation as a positive?
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It was necessary for creativity
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With what great innovation did Beethoven end his Ninth Symphony?
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A Vocal Chorus
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What tern did Hector Berlioz give to the leading theme or melody in his symphonies?
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Idee fixe
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As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what might Theodore Gericault have aimed to capture in his series of portraits of the insane?
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The downtrodden and forgotten
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Ludwig Von Beethoven
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Moonlight Sonata
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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John Constable
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The Hay Wain
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Sorrows of young Werther
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Fancisco Goya
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The Third of May 1808
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John Keats
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick
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Henry David Thoreau
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Walden, or life in the Woods
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Mary Godwin Shelley
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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
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William Wordsworth
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Lyrical Ballads
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