1. ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ is a poem by William Wordsworth, completed in 1804 and published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). It was also known as ‘Ode’, ‘Immortality Ode’ or __________?
A:) Great Ode
B:) Best Ode
C:) Fame Ode
D:) Romantic Ode
springline- Correct option: A:)Great Ode
2. Immortality Ode; The poem was completed in two parts, with the first four stanzas written among a series of poems composed in 1802 about childhood. The first part of the poem was completed on 27 March 1802 and a copy was provided to Wordsworth's friend and fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who responded with his own poem, ‘Dejection: An Ode’, in _____?
A:) March
B:) April
C:) May
D:) June
springline- Correct option: B:)April
3. Immortality Ode; The fourth stanza of the ode ends with a question, and Wordsworth was finally able to answer it with seven additional stanzas completed in early 1804. It was not until 1815 that it was edited and reworked to the version that is currently known, ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’. It was first printed as ‘Ode’ in _________?
A:) 1805
B:) 1806
C:) 1807
D:) 1808
springline- Correct option: C:)1807
4. Immortality Ode; The poem is an irregular Pindaric ode in 11 stanzas that combines aspects of Coleridge's Conversation poems, the religious sentiments of the Bible and the works of Saint Augustine, and aspects of the elegiac and apocalyptic traditions. It is split into three movements: the first four stanzas discuss death, and the loss of youth and ______?
A:) pleasure
B:) death
C:) old
D:) innocence
springline- Correct option: D:)innocence
5. Immortality Ode; The poem relies on the concept of pre-existence, the idea that the soul existed before the body, to connect children with the ability to witness the divine within nature. Wordsworth's praise of the child as the ‘best philosopher’ was criticised by ___________?
A:) Dorothy
B:) William Blake
C:) Coleridge
D:) Charles Lamb
springline- Correct option: C:)Coleridge
6. Immortality Ode; The critics felt that Wordsworth's subject matter was too ‘low’ and some felt that the emphasis on childhood was misplaced. Among the Romantic poets, most praised various aspects of the poem however. By the Victorian period, most reviews of the ode were positive with only ,Who taking a strong negative stance against the poem ?
A:) Thomas Gray
B:) William Blake
C:) Charles Lamb
D:) John Ruskin
springline- Correct option: D:)John Ruskin
7. In 1802, Wordsworth wrote many poems that dealt with his youth. These poems were partly inspired by his conversations with his sister, Dorothy, whom he was living with in the Lake District at the time. The poems, beginning with _____?
A:) The Winter
B:) To the Cuckoo
C:) The Butterfly
D:) The Rainbow
springline- Correct option: C:)The Butterfly
8. From ‘To the Cuckoo’, Wordsworth moved on to ‘The Rainbow’, both written on 26 March 1802, and then on to ‘Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’. As he moved from poem to poem, he began to question why, as a child, he once was able to see an immortal presence within nature but as an adult that was fading away except in the few moments he was able to meditate on experiences found in poems like____?
A:) To the Cuckoo
B:) The Butterfly
C:) The Rainbow
D:) The Winter
springline- Correct option: A:)To the Cuckoo
9. Wordsworth was able to write four stanzas that put forth the question about the faded image and ended, ‘Where is it now, the glory and the dream?’ The poem would remain in its smaller, four-stanza version until 1804. When he began to compose the ode ?
A:) 26 March
B:) 27 March
C:) 28 March
D:) 29 March
springline- Correct option: B:)27 March
10. Immortality Ode; The poem was first printed in full for Wordsworth's 1807 collection of poems, Poems, in Two Volumes, under the title ‘Ode’. It was the last poem of the second volume of the work, and it had its own title page separating it from the rest of the poems, including the previous poem _______?
A:) Rime of Ancient Mariner
B:) Titan Abbey
C:) Peele Castle
D:) The Prelude
springline- Correct option: C:)Peele Castle
11. Immortality Ode;The purpose of the change in rhythm, rhyme, and style is to match the emotions expressed in the poem as it develops from idea to idea. The narration of the poem is in the style of an interior monologue, and there are many aspects of the poem that connect it to Coleridge's style of poetry called ________?
A:) Conventional poems
B:) Conversation poems
C:) Romantic poems
D:) Contextual poems
springline- Correct option: B:)Conversation poems
12. Immortality Ode; In terms of genre, the poem is an ode, which makes it a poem that is both prayer and contains a celebration of its subject. However, this celebration is mixed with questioning and this hinders the continuity of the poem. The poem is also related to the _____?
A:) elegy
B:) epic
C:) sonnet
D:) Ballad
springline- Correct option: A:)elegy
13. The ode is like To the Cuckoo in that both poems discuss aspects of nature common to the end of spring. Both poems were crafted at times when the natural imagery could not take place, so Wordsworth had to rely on his imagination to determine the scene. Wordsworth refers to ‘A timely utterance’ in the third stanza, possibly the same event found in his _____?
A:) To the Cuckoo
B:) The Rainbow
C:) The Butterfly
D:) The Winter
springline- Correct option: B:)The Rainbow
14. Wordsworth's explanation of the origin of the poem suggests that it was inspiration and passion that led to the ode's composition, and he later said that the poem was to deal with the loss of sensations and a desire to overcome the natural process of ____?
A:) love
B:) youth
C:) humanity
D:) death
springline- Correct option: D:)death
15. Ode: Intimations of Immortality is about childhood, but the poem doesn't completely focus on childhood. The ode focuses not on Dorothy or on Wordsworth's love, Mary Hutchinson, but on himself and is part of what is called his _______?
A:) splendid sublime
B:) noble sublime
C:) egotistical sublime
D:) terrifying sublime
springline- Correct option: C:)egotistical sublime
16. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey is a poem by William Wordsworth. The title, Lines Written (or ComposeD:)a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, is often abbreviated simply to Tintern Abbey. It was written by Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister in this section of the _______?
A:) England
B:) Welsh Borders
C:) Scottish border
D:) Italy
springline- Correct option: B:)Welsh Borders
17. Tintern Abbey; The poem has its roots in Wordsworth's personal history. He had previously visited the area as a troubled twenty-three-year-old in August 1793. The poem is written in tightly structured decasyllabic __________?
A:) Blankverse
B:) Limrick
C:) Villanelle
D:) Ode
springline- Correct option: A:) Blankverse
18. Wordsworth claimed now ‘to see into the life of things' (line 50) and, so enabled, to hear’ oftentimes/ The still sad music of humanity' (92-3), but recent critics have used close readings of the poem to question such assertions. For example, Whose views on him ‘as managing to see into the life of things only 'by narrowing and skewing his field of vision' and by excluding 'certain conflictual sights and meanings'?
A:) Marjorie Levinson
B:) William Jones
C:) Max Miller
D:) Michael Ventris
springline- Correct option: A:)Marjorie Levinson
19. The poem by Davies more or less sets the emotional tone for the poems to come and brackets past and present human traces far more directly than does Wordsworth. As the boat carrying Sneyd Davies neared Tintern Abbey, he noted the presence of ‘naked quarries’ before passing to the ruins, bathed in evening light and blending into the natural surroundings to give a sense of _______?
A:) painful pleasure
B:) pleasurable sorrow
C:) pleasurable sadness
D:) enjoyment of sadness
springline- Correct option: C:)pleasurable sadness
20. Tintern Abbey; The silent listener in this case is Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, who is addressed in the poem's final section. Transcending the nature poetry written before that date, it employs a much more intellectual and philosophical engagement with the subject that verges on ______?
A:) Realism
B:) pantheism
C:) Modernism
D:) Naturalism
springline- Correct option: B:)pantheism
21. William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). He was died in_____?
A:) 1850
B:) 1851
C:) 1852
D:) 1853
springline- Correct option: A:)1850
22. Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English _______?
A:) Romantic movement
B:) Literary movement
C:) Realism
D:) Naturalism
springline- Correct option: A:)Romantic movement
23. Wordsworth, Dorothy, and Coleridge travelled to Germany in the autumn of 1798. While Coleridge was intellectually stimulated by the journey, its main effect on Wordsworth was to produce homesickness. During the harsh winter of 1798–99 Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, began work on the autobiographical piece that was later titled ____?
A:) Tintern Abbey
B:) The Sparrow’s Nest
C:) To the Cuckoo
D:) The Prelude
springline- Correct option: D:)The Prelude
24. The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single ‘school’ of thought or literary practice then known. They were named, only to be uniformly disparaged, by the _____?
A:) Oxford Review
B:) Poets Review
C:) Edinburgh Review
D:) Critics Review
springline- Correct option: C:)Edinburgh Review
25. Ode: The short version of the ode was possibly finished in one day because Wordsworth left the next day to spend time with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Keswick. Close to the time Wordsworth and Coleridge climbed the Skiddaw mountain________?
A:) 2 April 1801
B:) 3 May 1802
C:) 2 May 1801
D:) 3 April 1802
springline- Correct option: D:)3 April 1802
26. In 1820, Wordsworth issued The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth that collected the poems he wished to be preserved with an emphasis on ordering the poems, revising the text, and including prose that would provide the theory behind the text. Which was the final poem of the fourth and final book ?
A:) Sonnet
B:) Elegy
C:) Epic
D:) Ode
springline- Correct option: D:)Ode
27. Ode; There is a more traditional original of the discussion style of the poem, as many of the prophetic aspects of the poem are related to the Old Testament of the Bible. Additionally, the reflective and questioning aspects are similar to the Psalms and the works of Saint Augustine, and the ode contains what is reminiscent of _________?
A:) Hebrew Book
B:) Hebrew prayer
C:) Hebrew manuscript
D:) Latin Bible
springline- Correct option: B:)Hebrew prayer
28. The expanded portion of the ode is related to the ideas expressed in Wordsworth's The Prelude Book V in their emphasis on childhood memories and a connection between the divine and________?
A:) death
B:) humanity
C:) Victory
D:) Life
springline- Correct option: B:)humanity
29. Immortality Ode; Although this emphasis seems non-Christian, many of the poem's images are Judeo-Christian in origin. Additionally, the Platonic theory of pre-existence is related to the Christian understanding of the Incarnation, which is a connection that Shelley drops when he reuses many of Wordsworth's ideas in ____?
A:) The Cloud
B:) To a Skylark
C:) The Triumph of Life
D:) The Prelude
springline- Correct option: C:)The Triumph of Life
30. To Wordsworth, infancy is when the ‘poetic spirit’, the ability to experience visions, is first developed and is based on the infant learning about the world and bonding to nature. As the child goes through adolescence, he continues to bond with nature and this is slowly replaced by a love for humanity, a concept known as __________?
A:) One Life
B:) Heavenly life
C:) One love
D:) Spring life
springline- Correct option: A:)One Life