Industrial Revolution & Westward Expansion
Which country began the Industrial Revolution
England
Victory of what war gave rise to nationalism?
The War of 1812, a two-year war.
Leader of American transcendentalism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a speaker?
The speaker is the voice that is talking in a poem.
What is a theme?
The theme or themes of a poem are the underlying message or messages that a poet wants to convey.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The country shifted from its largely agrarian economy to become an industrial powerhouse
What two factions rose due to different ideals? What was the difference?
South’s point of view, the North was getting rich at the South’s expense.
What was transcendentalism according to Emerson?
The belief that every individual is capable of discovering higher truth through his or her own intuition.
Does free verse have a set structure?
does not have regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm
What is imagery?
Images created by sensory language and why the poet wants readers to “see” these picture.
What is the "manifest destiny" theory?
By mid-century, Americans began to fully embrace the idea of “manifest destiny”—the belief that the United States was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory
What threatened American Unity?
Economic interests also threatened American unity.
What was a major criticism of this movement?
Puritan heritage, with its emphasis on material prosperity and rigid obedience to the laws of society
Who is the speaker?
In free verse, the speaker may be the poet, or a fictional character or narrator.
What are symbols?
A person, place, or thing that has meaning beyond itself is often central to the poem’s meaning.
What is the Indian Removal Act
In 1830 the United States Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, forcing Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi River. Those who resisted were often brutally pushed off their lands.
What is nationalism?
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
What did they dislike?
The transcendentalists disliked the commercial side of American life and the hectic pace of the Industrial Revolution.
How is free verse similar to everyday speech?
uses uneven, unrhymed lines and stanzas that sound like everyday speech
What are direct statements?
Sometimes the poet expresses ideas directly, does not require the reader to infer.
Effects of the Industrial Revolution
The growth of the factory system brought many people from farms into cities, where they worked long hours for low wages, often under harsh conditions. As well the rise of child labor gave way to controversies.
What is Sectionalism
Sectionalism, or the placing of the interests of one’s own region ahead of the nation as a whole, began to take hold.
What did they instead wished for in society?
They stressed spiritual well-being, achieved through intellectual activity and a close relationship to nature.
What elements of traditional poetry does free verse contain?
Imagery & Sound devices
What are figures of speech?
Comparisons in the form of similes and metaphors tell readers how the poet wants them to view certain idea.