Setting/Theme
List one of the Themes our class learned about?
Dark side, truth and Government
When did Romanticism first emerge?
Late 18th Century
Where did the name Fireside come from?
Reading poetry by a fire
What is Transcendentalism?
A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrating the truth found in nature and in personal imagination.
What is another name for Amer. Gothic?
The Brooding Romantics
Where did the legend of sleepy hollow take place?
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Who wrote the poem Thanatopsis?
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Henry Longfellow
C. William Bryant
C. William Bryant
Who was a Fireside poet?
A. Henry Longfellow
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A. Henry Longfellow
Who was a Transcendentalist?
A. Oliver Wendall Homes
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
True or False: Amer. Gothic poets have been called Anti-Transcendentalists?
True
Where did the Scarlett Letter take place?
Boston
Which poet is an Early Romantic?
A. Edgar Allen Poe
B. Washington Irving
C. Henry Thoreau
B. Washington Irving
Who wrote "The First Snowfall"?
James Russell Lowell
Who Wrote "Civil Disobedience"?
Henry Thoreau
Who wrote "The Fall of The House of Usher"?
Edgar Allen Poe
True or False: Edgar Allen Poe believed in extreme situations and people reveal their true/evil natures?
True
Who wrote the Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Washington Irving
Who wrote "Old Ironsides"
BONUS: What was Old Ironsides ACCTUAL Ship Name?
Oliver Wendall Homes
USS Constitution
Who wrote "Nature"?
Henry Thoreau
Who is an Amer. Gothic poet?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which types of poet's believed in truth found in nature and personal emotion?
A. American Gothic
B. Fireside
C.Transcendentalists
C.Transcendentalists
Even though Washington Irving was from New York, where did "The Devil and Tom Walker" take place?
A few miles out from Boston Ma
True or False: The Amer. Fireside poets for the first time had an equal foot with The British Poets?
True
Name the poet who wrote "Women"?
Margret Fuller
Who Wrote "The Raven"?
Edgar Allen Poe