Lyrical Ballads_Question Bank

 (Developed by Dr N A Jarandikar)

1. In which year, The Lyrical Ballads was published?

Ø  1798

2. Who was the other poet along with William Wordsworth who contributed to The Lyrical Ballads?

Ø  S. T. Coleridge

3. In which year, did William Wordsworth write a preface to The Lyrical Ballads?

Ø  1802

4. According to William Wordsworth, what is a definition of poetry?

Ø  “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquillity.”

5. According to Pope, who is the father of a poetic diction?

Ø  Greek poet Homer

6. Who is the first person to use the term ‘poetic diction’?

Ø  John Dennis

7. According to Wordsworth, which language is more permanent and philosophic?

Ø  A language arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings

8. What does Wordsworth say about personifications?

Ø  A mechanical device

9. Which two forms Wordsworth refer as ‘Sisters’?

Ø  Poetry and Painting

10. Wordsworth’s poetry was a reaction against which poetry?

Ø  Neo-classical poetry

11. Who are the major poets of the neo-classical poetry?

Ø  Alexander Pope and John Dryden

12. Which movement started in England with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads?

Ø  Romantic revival movement

13. According to Wordsworth, what is mean by poetic diction?

Ø  “A real language of men.”

14. According to Wordsworth, what kind of life should poetry describe/portray?

Ø  “Low and rustic life”

15. What is Wordsworth’s view about ornamented poetry?

Ø  It blocks the genuine and passionate feelings of the poet.

 

 

1. According to Wordsworth, he published the first volume of The Lyrical Ballads as _____. (an experiment)

2. For his poems, Wordsworth selected _____ of men. (the real language)

3. In his poems, Wordsworth chose incidents and situations from _____. (common life)

4. According to Wordsworth, all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of _____. (powerful feelings)

5. Wordsworth avoids ______ so as to bring his language near to the language of men. (poetic diction)

6. In the preface, Wordsworth criticises “Sonnet on the Death of Mr Richard West”. This sonnet was written by _____. (Thomas Gray)

7. Wordsworth makes no distinction between _____ and metrical composition. (the language of prose)

8. According to Wordsworth, poet is a man speaking to _____. (men)