What is Transcendentalism?
Holds that the world we perceive with our senses is not all of existence and reality.
What is "Transcendentalism"?
This piece begins, "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide..."
What is "Self-Reliance"?
Walt Whitman was born here on May 31, 1819.
Where is Long Island, New York?
A major theme in her poems.
What is Nature?
Thoreau, in 1841, moved into this writer's house where he learned of Transcendentalist beliefs.
Who is Emerson?
Transcendentalists felt that the contemplation and study of this would cleanse the individual of the man-made and aid his or her connection with a transcendent reality.
What is "Nature"?
Emerson wrote in "Self-Reliance" that to be this is to be misunderstood.
What is "great"?
Whitman's invention for meter and rhyme -- he's known as the father of this.
What is "free verse"
The place she did most of her writing.
What is her bedroom?
Thoreau writes in "Walden" that he "went to the woods to live" how.
What is "deliberately"?
This is each individual's innate ability to transcend, or go beyond, ordinary sensory experience.
What is "intuition"?
In this piece, Emerson writes that "[he] become[s] a transparent eyeball" that he "is nothing" and simultaneously "sees all;" and that "the currents of the Universal Being circulates through [him]."
What is "Nature"?
Whitman's most famous collection of poetry
What is "Leaves of Grass"?
Dickinson wrote many of her poems using this kind of rhyme.
What is "slant rhyme"?
In "Walden," Thoreau suggests people cultivate this, like a "garden herb," in order to live the most independent lives possible.
What is "poverty"?
T or F: the basic truths of existence and human kind's place in the universe lie within knowledge that we obtain from our senses.
What is False? These basic truths lie beyond knowledge derived from the senses.
Though Emerson is known for his essays and lectures, he considered himself primarily this:
What is a "poet"?
There was another name for Leaves of Grass....True/False
What is False?
Dickinson barely left her home, but when she did, he wore white, a color she believed represented this:_____
What is "passion"?
Thoreau compares the American government to this image, which if ever the American people were to use it in earnest, would split.
What is "a wooden gun"?
Transcendentalism was a reaction to _____
What is "reason and rationalism of the times"?
In "Nature," Emerson writes that in this setting, he is "glad to the brink of fear."
What is the "woods"?
The amount of poems that were in the Leaves of Grass at Whitman's time of death.
What is 400 poems?
What was the amount of poems Emily Dickinson published during her lifetime?
What is seven?
Thoreau does not advocate for anarchy in "Civil Disobedience," but he asks for not "no government," but at once this:
What is "a better government"?