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English Literature in the Romantic
Period
Ⅰ. Essay
questions.
1.
In
Pride
and
Prejudice
,
Jane
Austen
explored
three
kinds
of
motivations
of marriage the
middle-class people had in the second half of the
18
th
century.
Try
to
make
a
brief
discussion
about
them
with
specific
examples from the
novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards
these motivations.
2. What are the general features of
English Romanticism
3. Tell
the story of
Pride and Prejudice
and make a comment on it.
4. Make a comment on Wordsworth
concerning his contribution to poetry.
5. Irony abounds in Jane Austen’s novel
Pride and Prejudice
. Please
illustrate it with reference to some
examples.
6. Make a general
comment on Walter Scott.’
Ⅱ.
Define the following terms.
1. Romanticism
2. Ode
3. Byronic
hero
4. Ottava
rima
5. Terza
rima
6. Irony
7. Lyric
8.
Motif
9. Theme
10. Symbol
11.
Imagery
12. Foil
13.
Synaesthesia
14.
Character
15. Flat
character
16. Round
character
17. Negative
capacity
Ⅲ Fill in the
blanks.
1. As an age of
romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in
1798 when
______and ______published
_______ and ended in 1832 when
______died.
2.
In
the
Preface
of
the
2
nd
and
3
rd
editions
of
__________,
Wordsworth
laid
down the principles of
poetry composition.
3. The
English Romantic Age produced two major novelists,
_________ and
______.
4. _____, ________, and_________ are
referred to as the “Lake Poets”
because
they lived in the Lake District in the
northwestern part of
England.
5.
In
1805,
Wordsworth
completed
his
long
autobiographical
poem
entitled__________.
6.
Scott’s
historical
novels
depicted
Scotland,
England,
and
the
Continent
covering
a
period
ranging
from
_______
up
to,
and
including,
_______.
7.
_______
mourned
for
_______’s
premature
death
in
an
elegy
“Adonais”,
w
riting “He is made one with
Nature.”
8. “Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage” is a long poem created by contains
four
cantos
in
the_______
stanza,
namely
a
9-line
stanza
rhymed
ababbcbcc
,
in
which
the
first
eight
lines
are
in
iambic
pentameter
while
the ninth in iambic
hexameter,
9.
_______
is
Byron’s
masterpiece,
written
in
the
prime
of
his
creative
power. He called it an “epic satire”,
“a satire on abuses of the
present
state of society.”
10.
The
great
novelist
in
the
Romantic
period_______
marked
the
transition
from Romanticism
to the period of Realism which followed
it.
11. The plot of
Shelley’s lyrical drama
Prometheus
Unbound
is borrowed
from
_______, a play of the Greek tragedian
Aeschylus.
12.
In
“To
Autumn”,
Keats
writes,”
Season
of
mists
and
mellow
fruitfulness, / Clise bosom-friend of
the maturing sun; / Conspiring
with him
how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that
round the
thatch-
eves run; /
…” The figure of speech used in the lines is
_______.
13. “Ode
to a Nightingale” expresses the contrast
be
tween _______ and
_______.
14. The
unifying principle in
Don
Juan
is the basic ironic theme of
_______, ., what things seem to be and
what they actually are.
15.
Byron employed _______ from Italian mock-heroic
poetry. His first
experiment
was
made
in
Beppo
.
It
was
perfected
in
Don
Juan
in
which
the
convention flows with ease and
naturalness.
was
memorized
and
honored
as
“the
heart
of
all
hearts”
after
his
death.
17.
Many
critics
regard
Shelley
as
one
of
the
greatest
of
all
English
poets.
They point especially to
his_______.
18.
Romanticism
was
in
effect
a
revolt
of
the
English
_______against
the
neoclassical _______,
which prevailed from the days of pope to those
of Johnson.
19.
_______
are
generally
regarded
as
Keats’s
most
important
and
mature
works.
20.
“Ode
on
a
Grecian
Urn”
shows
the
contrast
between
_______and
_______.
21.
Among the Romantic figures, _______has a
fundamental conviction of
the health of
the social system, of its ability to reform
itself, and
of
the
assurance
of
social
well-being
and
the
likelihood
of
a
reasonable
personal
happiness.
22. Scott is
considered “the father of _______” which open(s)
up to
fiction the rich and lively realm
of history.
23.
Two
prevailing
themes
of
Pride
and
Prejudice
are
_______
and
_______.
24.
_______ was composed in a dream after the poet
Coleridge took the
opium.
25. All such works of Coleridge as “The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner”,
“Christable”
and
“Kubla
Khan”
revealed
his
keen
interest
in_______,
26.
_______ is regarded as a “worshipper of
nature”.
27.
“I
Wandered
Lonely
as
a
Cloud”,
“An
Evening
Walk”,
“My
Heart
Leaps
up” and “Tintern
Abbey” are all masterpieces on _______.
28. The main idea running through the
dramatic poem
Prometheus
Unbound
is that of
_______.
29. _______, with a
triumphant praise of the imagination, highly
exalts
the
role
of
poetry,
thinking
that
poetry
alone
could
free
man
and
offer
the
mind a wider view of its powers. He holds that
poetry “is a more
direct representation
of the actions and passions of our internal
being”.
30.
The
Romantic
period
is
an
age
of
poetry.
The
major
Romantic
poets
such
as Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats started a
rebellion
against
the
neoclassical
literature,
which
was
later
regarded
as
_______.
31. _______ and
_______ gave great impetus to the rise of the
Romantic
Movement.
32.
_______ is a great critic of the romantic period
on Shakespeare,
Elizabethan
drama,
and
English
poetry.
He
is
also
a
maser
of
the
familiar
essays.
33. With
_______, the essay is no longer chiefly a mode of
intellectual
inquiry and moral address.
Rather, the essay becomes a medium for a
delightful
literary
treatment
of
life’s
small
pleasures
and
reassurances.
Ⅳ.
Choose the best answer
1.
“Beauty
is
truth,
truth
beauty”
is
an
epigrammatic
line
by
_______.
A. Kohn
Keats B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth D. Percy
Bysshe Shelley
2. William
Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the
following
EXCEPT _______.
A. Normal contemporary speech
patterns
B. Humble and
rustic life as subject matter
C. Elegant wording and inflated figures
of speech
D. Intensely
subjective feeling toward individual
experience
3.
In
Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge’s
“Kubla
Khan”,
“A
sunny
pleasure
dome
with caves of ice “_______.
A. Refers to the palace where Kubla
Khan once lived
B. Vividly
describes a building of poor quality
C. Is the gift given to a beautiful
girl called Abyssinian
D.
Symbolizes
the reconciliation
of
the conscious and
the unconscious
4. _______is one of the first
generation of English Romantic poets.
A. Keats
B.
Shelley
C. Byron
D.
Wordsworth
5. “If winter
comes, can spring be far behind” is taken from
_______.
A.
The
Solitary Reaper
B.
Ode to the West Wind
C.
To
Autumn
D.
Song to
the Man of England
6.
_______is NOT among the representative essayists
in the romantic
times.
A. Charles Lamb
B. William Hazlitt
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Walter Scott
7.
In_______,
_______set
forth
his
principles
of
poetry,
“all
good
poetry
is the spontaneous
overflow of powerful feeling”.
A. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads;
Wordsworth
B. “The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner”; Coleridge
C. “A Defence of Poetry”;
Shelley
D. “Lectures on the
English Poets”; Hazlitt
8.
_______is NOT a lyric written by
Wordsworth.
A. My Heart
Leaps Up
B. Intimations of
Immortality
C. Love’s
Philosophy
D. I Wandered
Lonely as a Cloud
9. All the
poems were written by Byron
EXCEPT_______.
A.
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
B.
Don Juan
C.
The Isle of Greece
D.
The Masque of
Anarchy
10. Keats wrote five
long poems. _______ is NOT among them.
A.
Endymion
B.
Isabella
C.
The Eve of St.
Agnes
D.
Annabel
Lee
11. It is said that all
Keats’s personality seems to be breathed into
his odes, of which the more famous odes
are “de to Autumn”, “Ode on
Melancholy”,
”Ode
on
a
Grecian
Urn”
and
“Ode
to
Nightingale”,
all
with the praise of
_______ as their general theme.
A. love
B.
beauty
C. nature
D. art
12.
The
first
poem
in
The
Lyrical
Ballads
is
Coleridge’s
masterpiece_______.
A. The Prelude
B.
Kubla Khan
C. The Time of
the Ancient Mariner
D.
Tintern Abbey
13. _______can
be found among
Shelley’s love
lyrics.
A.
One
Word is Too Often Profaned
B.
When We Two
Parted
C.
A Red,
Red Rose
D.
Song to Celia
14. Among the following, _______is an
elegy.
A.
Lamis
B.
Isabella
C.
Adonais
D.
Queen
Mab
15. _______is NOT a
historical novel written by Scott.
A.
Rob Roy
B.
Ivanhoe
C.
Marmion
D.
Waverly
16. In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner”, the mariner
suffers
the horror of death, because _______.
A. He experiences a
shipwreck
B. He is tortured
with starvation
C. He
undergoes much suffering
D.
He kills an albatross
17.
_______ is the poetic drama written by
Byron.
A.
Hours
of Idleness
B.
Prometheus Unbound
C.
Cain
D.
Oriental Tales
18. The following statements are about
“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”.
Among
them which one is NOT true
A. It is
about a young
aristocrat whose
“world
-
weariness” bespeaks
his loathing for English high
society.
B. Besides Harold’s
impressions of the countries he visits, the poem
is interspersed with Lyrical outbursts
which give utterance to the
poet’s own
philosophic
al and political
views.
C. The first canto deals with Albania
and Greece.
D. The last
canto sings
of
Italy and the
Italian
people who have
given
the world great
writers and thinkers like Dante.
19. All the following are novels
written by Jane Austen EXCEPT_______.
A.
Mansfield Park
B.
Shirley
C.
Emma
D.
Persuasion
20. Which one of the following
statements about Don Juan is true
A. Byron began its writing in Italy in
1818, and finished it in 1823.
B. It is in 10 cantos.
C. The story of the poem takes place in
the latter part of the 16
th
century.
D.
It
displayed
Byron’s
genius
as
a
romanticist
and
a
realist
simultaneously.
21. In 1843, _______was made poet
laureate.
A. Southey
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats
22. The
revolutionary Romantic poet went to Greece to help
that country
in its struggle for
liberty and died of fever there.
A. Shelley B.
Byron
C. Keats
D. Burns
23.
is
Shelley’s
well
-known
political
lyric,
which
calls
upon
the
working class to fight
against their rulers and exploiters.
A.
Don Juan
B.
The Cenci
C.
Prometheus Unbound
D.
Song to the Men of
England
24.
is
Byron’s
poetic
drama
with
the
material
taken
from
Biblical
story or stories.
A
.
Cain
B.
Don Juan
C.
Song for the Luddites
D.
Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage
25.
’s poetry is always sensuous, colorful
and rich in imagery,
which
expresses
the
acuteness
of
his
senses.
In
his
poetry,
sight,
sound,
scent,
taste
and
feeling
are
all
taken
into
give
an
entire
understanding
of an experience.
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth D.
Byron
26. All the following
statements about “Ode
on a
Grecian
Urn” are true
EXCEPT
.
A.
In
this
poem
Keats
shows
the
contrast
between
the
permanence
of
art
and the transience of
human passion.
B. The poem
presents Keats’ ambivalence about time and the
nature of
beauty.
C.
It
has
often
been
celebrated,
together
with
“Ode
to
a
Nightingale”,
as the height of Keats’ achievement in
poetry.
D. In this poem, the
poet spoke as bitterly of human woes as he did
in “Ode to a Nightingale”.
27.
Pride
and
Prejudice
is
noted
for
its
vividly
depicted
characters
who
are
revealed
through
comparison
and
contrast
with
each
other.
Among
the
following pairs of
characters are NOT in contrast.
A.
Darcy and Wickham
B. Elizabeth and
Charlotte
C. Elizabeth and Jane
D. Lady Catherine and Mr.
Collins
28. At the beginning of
Pride and Prejudice
, the
attitude of Darcy and
Elizabeth toward
each other is that of .
A.
mutual affection B. mutual repulsion
C. mutual hatred D. mutual
indifference
29. All the
sonnets were written by Keats EXCEPT
.
A.
London
1802
B.
When I
Have Fears
C.
Bright Star
D.
On the Grasshopper and
Cricket
30. The Romantic
Movement expressed a attitude toward
the
existing
social
and
political
conditions
that
came
with
industrialization and the growing
importance of the bourgeoisie.
A.
negative B. neutral
C.
positive D.
indifferent
31. The
prevailing tone in
Pride and
Prejudice
is .
A. bitter satire B. mild
satire
C. strong approval D.
strong disapproval
32.”Ode
to the West Wind” is concluded with
mood.
A. triumphant and
hopeful B. pessimistic and skeptical
C. desperate and sad D.
indifferent
33. Which one of
the following does NOT describe the
characteristics of
Scott’s
writing
A. The central
heroes of his novels are young men of valor, who,
taken
as a whole, are rather
superficial, lacking in virility and lacking
depth of psychological
characterization.
B. His
works display his marvelous command of the
Scottish dialect.
C. His
plotting is often closely knitted.
D. He has an eye for the telling
detail.
34.
Of
the
following statements
about
Lyrical
Ballads
,
which
is
NOT
true
A.
The
poems
are
noted
for
the
uncompromising
obscurity
of
much
of
the
language.
B.
The
poems
show
the
strong
sympathy
not
merely
with
the
poor
in
general
but with particular, dramatized
examples of them.
C.
The
poems
Wordsworth
added
to
the1800
edition
of
the
Lyrical
Ballads
are among the best of his
achievements.
D. The natural
description and expressions of inward states of
mind
fused into one in most of the
poems.
35.”You and
the girls may go, or you may send them
by themselves, which
perhaps
will
be
still
better,
for
as
you
are
as
handsome
as
any
of
them,
Mr.
Bingley
might
like
you
the
best
of
the
party.”
The
figure
of
speech
used in the sentence is .
A. simile B. irony
C. antithesis D.
metaphor
36. All the
following about Romanticism are true EXCEPT
.
A. Where their
predecessors saw man as a social animal, the
Romantics
saw him essentially as an
individual in the solitary state.
B.
Where
the
Augustans
emphasized
those
features
that
men
have
in
common,
the
Romantics
emphasized
the
special
qualities
of
each
individual’s
mind.
C.
Romanticism
constitutes
a
change
of
direction
from
attention
to
the
inner
world
of
human
spirit
to
the
outer
world
of
social
civilization.
D.
Romantics
also
tended
to
be
nationalistic,
defending
the
great
poets
and dramatists
of their
own
national heritage
against
the advocates
of
classical rules who tended to glorify Rome and
Rational Italian
and French
neoclassical art as superior to the native
traditions.
37.
The
Romantic
period
is
a
great
age
of
all
literary
genres
EXCEPT .
A .poetry B. prose
C. drama D.
novel
38. Romantic writers
employ all the following EXCEPT as their
poetic materials.
A. the
commonplace B. the natural
C.
the simple D. the
abstract
39. Jane Austen’s
view of life is a totally
one.
A. romantic
B. sentimental
C. realistic
D. pessimistic
40. is
NOT the essay written by Charles Lamb.
A.
Dream Children
B.
The Praise of Chimney
Sweepers
C.
A
Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married
People
D.
Characters of Shakespeare’s
Plays
Ⅴ.
Short
-answer questions.
1. Explain and comment on the sentence
with respect to its function in
the
novel
where
it
is
taken
from,”
It
is
a
truth
universally
acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must
be
in want of a wife.”
2. To
Shelley, what
kind of
noble
qualities does
the image of
Prometheus
unite
3. State briefly the artistic features
of Jane Austen.
4
. Tell about the theme of
Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
5. Name five representative essay
writers of the romantic period.
6. How is Shelly
’s
Prometheus Unbound
different
from the traditional
Greek interpretation What is the
significance of this difference
7. Tell in a few words the theme of
Don Juan
.
8
. Name five of Keats’s
immortal odes.
9. Name the
first and second generations of the Romantic
poets.
10. Why is Keats,
unlike
the radical Shelley and Byron,
among the active
Romantic
poets
11
. Tell
the theme of “Ode to the West Wind”.
12
. What is the symbolic
meaning of “the west wind”
13
. Tell about Coleridge’s
artistic ideas.
Ⅵ. Answer
the questions accordi
ng to the
followings passage.
Passage
1
O wild West Wind, thou
breath of Autumn’s being
Thou from whose unseen presence the
leaves dead
Are driven like
ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and
pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O thou
Who chariot test to their
dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold
and low,
Each like a corpse
within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall
blow
Her clarion
o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed
in air)
With living hues and
odours plain and hill;
Wild spirit, which art moving
everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver hear, O
hear!
Questions:
1. What is the title of the poem Who is
the poet
2. What is the
rhyme scheme of the poem
3.
What figures of speech are used Give
examples.
4. What do
“Pestilence
-
stricken
multitudes” refer to
5.
Give
examples
to
illustrate
the
life
and
death
images
employed
in
this
excerpt.
Comment briefly on them.
6.
Why is the West Wind called “Destroyer and
preserver”
Passage 2
It
is
a
truth
universally
acknowledged,
that
a
single
man
in
possession
of a good fortune, must be in want of a
wife.
However little known
the feelings or views of such a man may be on
his first entering a neighbourhood,
this truth is so well fixed in the
minds
of
the
surrounding
families,
that
he
is
considered
as
the
rightful
property of some
one or other of their daughters.
“My
dear
Mr.
Bennet,”
said
his
lady
to
him
one
day,
have
you
heard
that
Netherfield Park is let at last”
Mr. Bennet replied that he had
not.
“Do
not
you
want
to
know
who
has
taken
it”cried
his
wife
impatiently.
“You
want to tell me, and I have no objection to
hearing it.”
This was
invitation enough.
“Why, my
dear, you must know, Mrs., Long says that
Netherfie
d is
taken by a
young man of large fortune from the north of
England; that he
came
down
on
Monday
in
a
chaise
and
four
to
see
the
place,
and
was
so
much
delighted with
it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately that
he is
to take possession before
Michaelmas,
and some of his
servants are to
be
in the
house by the end of next week.”
“What is his name”
“Bingley.”
“Is he
married or single”
“Oh!
Single,
my
dear,
to
be
sure!
A
single
man
of
large
fortune
four
or five thousand a
year. What a fine thing for our
girls!”
“How so
How can it affect them”
“My
dear
Mr.
Bennet,”
replied
his
wife,
“how
can
you
be
so
tiresome!
You must know that I am thinking of his
marrying one of them.”
“Is
that his design in settling here”
“Design! Nonsense, how can
you
talk so! But
i
t
is very likely that
he may fall in love with one of them,
and therefore you must visit him
as
soon as he comes.”
“I can
see no occasion for that. You and the girls may
go, or you
may send them by themselves,
which perhaps will be still better, for as
you are as handsome as any of them, Mr.
Bingley might like you the best
of the
party.”
“My dear,
you
flatter me.
I
certainly have had my share of beauty,
but I do not pretend to be any thing
extraordinary now. When a woman has
five grown up daughters, she ought to
give over thinking of her own
beauty.”
“In such cases, a woman has not often
much beauty to think of.”
Questions:
7.
This excerpt is taken from the novel entitled
_______ by_________.
8.
Comment on the characters of Mr., and Mrs.
Bennet.
9. What methods are used to depict the
character of Mr., and Mrs. Bennet
10. This except is taken from a chapter
that has been highly praised as
an
opening
chapter.
Do
you
consider
such
praise
justified
Give
reasons
for your
answer.
Passage
3
Wherefore, Bees of
England, forge
Many a
weapon, chain, and scourge,
That these stingless drones may
spoil
The forced produce of
your toil
Have
ye leisure, comfort, calm,
Shelter, food, love’s gentle
balm
Or what is it ye buy so
dear
With your pain and with
your fear
The
seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another
keeps;
The robes ye weave,
another wears
The arms ye
forge, another bears.
Sow
seed,
—
but let no tyrant
reap;
Find
wealth,
—
let no impost or
heap;
Weave
robes,
—
let not the idle
wear;
Forge
arms,
—
in your defence to
bear.
Questions:
11. What is the title of the poem this
excerpt is taken from
？
12. Who is the writer of this
poem
？
13.
What
do
“Bees
of
England”
and
“these
stingless
drones”
refer
to？
14. What is
the possible theme of this
poem
？
Passage4
I
wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats
on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the
breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand say I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly
dance.
The waves
beside them danced; but they
Out did
the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet
could not but be gay,
In such a jocund
company;
I
gazed
—
and
gazed
—
but little thought
What wealth the show to me had
brought:
For
oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant
or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Questions:
15.
What is the recurrent central image in this
poem
？
16. What
does the persona feel at the end of the
poem
？
17. Explain
“What wealth the show to me had
brought”.
18. Explain in a
few words “t
hat inward eye / Which is
the bliss of
solitude”.
19.
This
poem
is
considered
by
many
the
most
anthologized
poem
in
English
literature, and one that takes us to
the core of Wordsworth’s poetic
beliefs. How is the core
manifested
Passage5
Fade
faraway, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never
known,
The weariness, the
fever, and the fret
Here,
where man sit and hear each other
groan;
Where palsy shakes a
few, sad, last grey hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-
thin, and dies;
Where but to think is
to be full of sorrow
And
lead en-eyed despairs,
Where
Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond
tomorrow.
Away!
Away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted
by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of
Poesy,
Though the dull brain
perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the
night,
And haply the Queen-
Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d
around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the
breezes blown
Through
verdurous glooms and winding mossy
ways.
Questions:
20. Which poem is this excerpt taken
from
21.
“Tender
is
the
Night”
has
been
taken
and
used
as
the
title
of
a
novel
written
by .
22. Explain the
first stanza of the excerpt.
23. What does the poet express in the
poem
Keys
Ⅰ. Essay
questions.
1. In this book,
three kinds of motivations of or attitudes towards
marriage are presented for
manifestation.
First,
there
is
marriage
merely
for
fortune,
money
and
social
rank.
This is to be
found in Miss
Bingley’s pursuit of Darcy, Lady de
Bourgh’s
intention to arrange a marriage between
her daughter and Darcy,
and in
Charlotte Lucas’ marriage to Mr. Collins. The
snobbery and
vanity of the rich and the
practicality of the poor gentry women are
fully accounted for.
The second is
the tendency to marry for beauty, attraction and
passion regardless
of
economic conditions
or personal merits.
This is
generally
known
as
“love
at
first
sight”.
Typical
examples
are
found
in the
marriages of the skeptical Mr. Bennet and Mrs.
Bennet who has
a
beautiful
face
but
an
empty
head
and
of
their
youngest
daughter
Lydia
to
the handsome, charming but morally weak and
penniless Wickham. The
terrible
aftermath
of
such
marriage
is
only
too
obvious
in
the
marriages
of
the two generations of the Bennets.
Lastly
comes
the
ideal
marriage,
which
is
a
love
match
with
considerations
of
the
lover’s
personal
merits
and
economic
conditions.
Such perfect
happiness is to be found in the marriage of Darcy
and
Elizabeth and that of Mr. Bingley
and Jane, although the satisfaction
of
both
the
personal
and
economic
conditions
like
this
is
really
a
bit
too
idealistic.
What Jane Austen
tries to say is that it is wrong to marry just
for
money
or
for
beauty,
but
it
is
also
wrong
to
marry
without
consideration
of
economic conditions. Of
the three types,
she prefers
the last one. And in the last type, she
seems to give her particular
preference
to the marriage of Darcy and Elizabeth.
2.(1)
Expressiveness:
Instead
of
regarding
poetry
as
“a
mi
rror
to
nature”, the romantics hold that the
object of the artist should
be
the
expression
of
the
artist’s
emotions,
impressions,
or
beliefs.
The
role of instinct, intuition, and the feelings of
“the heart”
is stressed instead of
neoclassicists’ emphasis on “the head”,
on regularity, uniformity, decorum and
imitation of the classical
writers.
Romantic poets describe poetry as “the spontaneous
over
flow of powerful feelings”.