Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism refers to the idea that in determining the ultimate reality of God, the universe, the self, and other important matters, one must ______ , or go beyond , every day human experience of the physical world.
What is transcend?
Who entered Harvard at age 14?
Who is Ralph Emerson?
Renaissance means ____________, or "coming or age"
What is rebirth?
A characteristic of transcendentalism is that everything, including humans, is a reflection of what?
What is the Divine Soul?
What is alive?
Transcendentalism is based off of Greek philosophy, ______, Idealism, and _________.
What are Hinduism and Romanticism?
Who a green coat and seen as a failure at 28?
Henry David Thoreau
What were the driving cuases of the reniance with examples?
Reforms in society were the driving cuases in the renaissance and examples are: public education, improved the conditions for mentally ill, abolition, and womens rights.
Physical facts of the natural world are a _______ to the spiritual or ideal world.
What is doorway?
What style is used in "I Hear America Singing"?
What is free verse?
______ and _______ were the most influential transcendentalists.
Emerson; Thoreau
Who was the master of the phycological thriller and laid the foundations for the modern detective story?
Edgar Allan Poe
What is the difference between a lyceum and a utopian?
A lyceum is an organization of educated adults that instituted museums and social reforms. Utopian groups sought a better or perfect society and tended to leave society to start a new life.
People can use _____ to behold God's spirit in nature or in their own souls?
Intuition
How did you find cadence in Whitman's poetry?
reading the poem aloud to show how your voice rhythmically rises and falls
_______ were a driving force behind the renaissance.
What are reforms in society?
Who entered Harvard at 14 and believed in the "Over Soul"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What two authors defended American writers in a literary gathering in 1850
Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
_____ and ______ must outweigh extrenal authority and blind comformity to custom and tradition?
Self-Reliance and individualism
What is catalog in "I Hear America Singing"?
it lists related to people and events
What kind of writers were more focused on pain, sin, and evil?
What are Dark Romantics?
What two poets are vastly different with one living as a recluse and using carefully measured rhyme and meter, and the other using cadence, the long easy sweep of sound, and catalog lists?
Emily Dickenson and Walt Whitman
Meivelle and what other author both saw the _______ of human exsistance?
Meivelle and Hawthrone both saw the dark side to human exstistance.
Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate _________ and _________
What is intellectualism and rationality?
How does dickenson use rhythms?
She uses rhythms to show off certain words that will make readers notice