The Dungeon - Key Quotes

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1. 'Is this the only cure?' references what aspect of 1700's society?

  • The belief that nature has healing properties.
  • The focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation within the Penal System.
  • The death penalty as a form of punishment for crimes; the Bloody Code.
  • The conditions and medical issues caused by the standard of prisons.
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2. Which techniques are present in the quote, 'Thy melodies of woods, and winds and, waters'?

  • All three as well as personification.
  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
  • Tule of three.

3. What quote would support the Romantic belief that regardless of a person's actions, they are entitled to a certain level of basic human kindness. This quote also expresses a concern for the punishment than an individual would undergo for their crimes

  • '... most innocent, perhaps'
  • 'Loathsome plague-spot;'
  • 'and what if guilty?'
  • 'Is this the only cure? Merciful God?'

4. 'stagnate', 'corrupt', 'poison', 'friendless solitude', 'groaning', 'tears', 'uncomfortable', 'dismal twilight', 'savage' and, 'dungeon' form a semantic field that is best described as what?

  • All of these.
  • Negative.
  • Macabre cinematic imagery.
  • The effects of an absence of nature.

5. In the second stanza, Coleridge talks directly to nature; personifying it. Which of the following quotes would best support the argument of Pantheism?

  • 'Amid this general dance and minstrelsy;'
  • 'Healest thy wandering and distempered child'
  • 'Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters'
  • 'O nature!'
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