Unit 6: Vocabulary from Readings 2

This list covers "She Walks in Beauty," "Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage," "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind," "Ode to a Nightingale," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
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  1. serene
    not agitated
    Where thoughts serenely sweet express
    How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
  2. vain
    unproductive of success
    Not vainly did the early Persian make
    His altar the high places and the peak
    Of earth-o’ergazing mountains, and thus take
    A fit and unwall’d temple
  3. circumscribe
    restrict or confine
    Come, and compare
    Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek,
    With Nature’s realms of worship, earth and air,
    Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer!
  4. visage
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
    Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
  5. pestilence
    any epidemic disease with a high death rate
    Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
    Pestilence -stricken multitudes
  6. zenith
    the highest point of something
    ...even from the dim verge
    Of the horizon to the zenith’s height
  7. dirge
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
    Thou Dirge
    Of the dying year, to which this closing night
    Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre
  8. sepulcher
    a chamber that is used as a grave
    Thou Dirge
    Of the dying year, to which this closing night
    Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre
  9. chasm
    a deep opening in the earth's surface
    Thou
    For whose path the Atlantic’s level powers
    Cleave themselves into chasms
  10. tumult
    the act of making a noisy disturbance
    The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
    Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone
  11. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
    Be thou, Spirit fierce,
    My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
  12. verdure
    green foliage
    But here there is no light,
    Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
    Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
  13. requiem
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
    Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
    To thy high requiem become a sod.
  14. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
    Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
  15. deity
    a supernatural being worshipped as controlling the world
    What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape
    Of deities or mortals, or of both
  16. adieu
    a farewell remark
    Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
    Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu
  17. citadel
    a stronghold for shelter during a battle
    What little town by river or sea shore,
    Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
    Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
Created on Tue Mar 09 10:08:24 EST 2021 (updated Mon Mar 29 09:39:36 EDT 2021)

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