Mystery
_____________ acquired their name from the frequency at which people read their books around the fire at home.
The Fireside Poets
The _____________ is the movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved people around the world.
Abolitionist movement
Poe’s writing style placed emphasis on _____________, _______________, & _______________.
________________, issued by Abraham Lincoln, in 1863 declared enslaved individuals in southern territory free
The Emancipation Proclamation
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath!
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,
And speak the anguish of a land
That shook with horror at thy fall.
(How many poems are mashed up here?
3 Poems
(The Raven, October, & The Death of Lincoln)
John Greenleaf Whittier is a transcendentalist poet.
True or False
False
A group of writers and other intellectuals started what became known as _____________ in 1836.
The Transcendental Club
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least".
Henry David Thoreau
The Boston Brahmins were mostly the descendants of _______________.
Puritans
Thy task is done; the bond are free:
We bear thee to an honored grave,
Whose proudest monument shall be
The broken fetters of the slave.
(Name the poem and the person being referred to here)
The Death of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant. The poem is referring to Abraham Lincoln
There can’t be a Transcendentalist text without a sense of _________________. It urged individuals to govern themselves instead of becoming dependent upon others.
Self-reliance
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson's disciple?
______________ was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe and encourage Edgar Allan Poe.
Washington Irving
The American Civil War (1861-1865) was a conflict between ____________ and ___________ over issues related to slavery and states' rights.
the Union, and the Confederacy
Thy voice upon the deep
The home-bound sea-boy hails,
It charms his cares to sleep,
It cheers him as he sails.
(Who does the voice belong to?
The Bell
-100
-100
Who became a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society?
John Greenleaf Whittier
____________ was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
_______________ coined the term in 1861, calling Boston's elite families "the Brahmin Caste of New England."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“O wild-birds, flying from the South,
What saw and heard ye, gazing down?”
“We saw the mortar’s upturned mouth,
The sickened camp, the blazing town!
(Name the poem)
What the Birds Said
+500
+500
The novel that launched James Fenimore Cooper career was ___________ a tale about espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821.
The Spy
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mexican War
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost ___________—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name ___________—
Nameless here for evermore.
(What is the name of the speaker's beloved?)
Lenore