From the mistress of the house, the visitor glanced to the house itself. There was not sign of a woman in the room. No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence. Cheerless and comfortless, boastfully and doggedly rich, there the room stared at its present occupants, unsoftened and unrelieved by the least trace of any womanly occupation. As Mr. ___________ stood in the midst of his household gods, so those unrelenting divinities occupied their places around Mr. __________, and they were worthy of one another, and well matched.

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells; Crying What I do is me: for that I came . I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace; that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is— Christ—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

Identify the passage and explain what it shows about the characters that it refers to.  From the mistress of the house, the visitor glanced to the house itself. There was not sign of a woman in the room. No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence. Cheerless and comfortless, boastfully and doggedly rich, there the room stared at its present occupants, unsoftened and unrelieved by the least trace of any womanly occupation. As Mr. ___________ stood in the midst of his household gods, so those unrelenting divinities occupied their places around Mr. __________, and they were worthy of one another, and well matched. 

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete out and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

Identify the quote and who is being spoke of. What does it show about the person it speaks about?   Or when the moon was overhead, Came two young lovers lately wed; “I am half sick of shadows,” said           The ________________. 

What are the characteristics of an English Sonnet compared to an Italian sonnet? Identify at least one Romantic period author who wrote Italian sonnets and provide the title of one. 

Identify the quote and specifically discuss its place in the poem. What role have these “forms of beauty” had for the speaker?                            Though absent long,These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye:But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the dinOf towns and cities, I have owed to them,In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart,And passing even into my purer mindWith tranquil restoration:–feelings tooOf unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps, As may have had no trivial influence On that Best portion of a good man’s life;His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.  

Identify the text this passage is taken from and explain its relationship to the specific narrative of the poem as a whole:  And some had sworn an oath that sheShould be to public justice brought;And for the little infant’s bonesWith spades they would have sought.But then the beauteous hill of mossBefore their eyes began to stir;And for full fifty yards around,The grass it shook upon the ground; 

Identify: Epiphany

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.