America before this Class
Name a Puritan Poet
Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor
He believed everything should be read in . . .
one sitting
Name the father of Transcendentalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title of his collection he kept adding to.
Leaves of Grass
Last word in "Song of Myself."
"You"
Who wrote Rip Van Winkle?
Washington Irving
He used the word "nevermore" because . . .
It sounds like Cellar Door.
Name the student who became more famous.
Henry David Thoreau
His neologism.
Yawp
A Child asks him. . .
"What is the grass?"
Who wrote: "The Minister's Black Veil"
Hawthorne
Name the poem we read besides "The Raven" and "El Dorado"
"Alone"
Write out a tenet of Transcendentalism.
Relief in nature
By observing nature we can receive truth.
Finish this stanza: "I contradict myself . . ."
I contradict myself.
(I am large I contain multitudes.)
How many versus are there in "Song of Myself?"
52
Who is the poet of the American Revolution?
Philip Freneau
He invented this type of story. . .
Detective Story
How long was Thoreau in the woods?
2 years 2 months 2 days
This poem is how he became famous.
"O Captain! My Captain!"
Name the only poem he uses dialect in.
"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was this type of poet.
Fireside
He eagerly wrote: "The Black Cat" for this historic social movement.
Temperance Movement
Name the word that both Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. read.
"Civil Disobedience"
Name the poem that ends with:
The Answer
That you are here--that life exists and identity
That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
"O Me! O Life"
Give the full name of the soldier that Whitman commemorates in a letter to that soldier's mom.
Frank H. Irwin