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Romantic Writers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did romanticism begin as? | a revolt against the literary voice of Europe and the need to find a truly American voice. |
| Romanticism | Intuition (feelings) over logic |
| Characteristics of Romantic Literature | The 5 I's Imagination Intuition Idealism Inspiration Individuality |
| Imagination | The active part of the soul. |
| Intuition | Feelings are important. |
| Idealism | Striving for a perfect, Utopian world |
| Inspiration | Instinctive feeling |
| Individuality | Finding the unique voice of Americans |
| Nature | power, good and bad…more than man. represented freedom. find solace in nature. must be respected. |
| Supernatural Elements | Known as “Gothic” some Romantic authors preferred the dark side of nature, often incorporating fear into their pieces. |
| Romantic Hero | “The Common Man” |
| The common man | Humans are naturally good, but corrupted by urban life. Heroes do not have to be muscle men. Sometimes the hero can be flawed, unique or even strange. Romantic writers showed contempt for the middle/upper class. |
| “Fireside Poet” Most popular poet of the time | Longfellow |
| “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” “A Psalm of Life” | Longfellow |
| He wrote the first stories set in America | Irving |
| “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” | Irving |
| “Rip Van Winkle” | Irving |
| Born in New York | Irving |
| Best known for his poetry, establishing the Romantic movement in America and for his journalistic work. | Bryant |
| Supported basic human rights, including women’s right, freedom of speech and the abolition of slavery. | Bryant |
| “Thanatopsis” | Bryant |
| “To a Waterfowl” | Bryant |
| Dark Romantics people | Poe. Melville, Hawthorne |
| Dark Romantics | Acknowledged existence of pain, evil, sin |
| Transcendentalism | Emerson, Thoreau |
| Similarities of Dark Romantics and Transcendentalist | Value intuition Believe in signs and symbols Spiritual facts are in nature |
| “Father of American Poetry” | William Bryant |
| Heavily influenced by the English Romantics William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Bryant |
| The first American poet to use blank verse and introduced it into mainstream American poetry | Bryant |
| Attracted to the philosophy of Deism. | Bryant |
| Editor and co-owner of New York Evening Post | Bryant |
| Thanatos | death (William Bryant Thanatopsis) |
| opsis | sight (William Bryants Thanatopsis) |
| At age of 16 or 17-asks the question “What happens to us when we die?” | William Bryant |
| Lines 1-8 of Thanatopsis | Nature’s effect can be uplifting during happy times |
| Lines 8-13 of Thanatopsis | Nature can also create a feeling of fear and sadness. |
| Lines 14-15 of Thanatopsis | Therefore, turn to nature when you feel depressed about eventual death. |
| “Couch more magnificent” | Death is nothing more than the big sleep ( William Bryant Thanatopsis) |
| Bryant’s Attitude Toward Nature | Attitude is one of respectful admiration Attitude is one of gratitude |
| Where does the title of Thanatopsis come from | Greek words Thanatops - death Opsis - sights |
| who is she in thanatopsis and what does she do | nature, she sooths and adds on to happiness |
| In thanatopsis what effect does nature have on sadness | soothes and stops it |
| in thanatopsis lines 22-30 what happens when we die, tone? | we decompose into nature, dark tone |
| “Music is the universal language of mankind- poetry their universal pastime and delight.” | Longfellow |
| Born in Portland, Maine. | Longfellow |
| He attended Bowdoin College,He taught at Bowdoin for five years and then accepted a job at Harvard, teaching there for 18 years. | Longfellow |
| He suffered the death of two wives. | Longfellow |
| How did Longfellow's first wife die | miscarriage |
| how did Longfellow's 2nd wife die | burned alive, Longfellow witnessed |
| Longfellows made and apeal to who in his poems | general audiences |
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