Era Characteristics
The worldview of this era was Rationalism and Deism
"The Raven"
Edgar Allan Poe
first African-American poet published
Phillis Wheatley
God’s use for us despite our weakness
“When I Consider How my Light is Spent"
a character speaking truth without realizing it
verbal irony
This era had a strong reverence for nature and Pantheism.
Romantic
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
John Keats
Metaphysical Poets
John Donne and George Herbert
nature’s beauty restores
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
comparison using "like" or "as"
simile
This era was the "Golden Age of British Literature"
Rambler No. 4
Samuel Johnson
supreme poet of nature
William Wordsworth
finding truth and permanence in beauty
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
giving ideas human qualities
personification
This era lived by a code of comitatus.
Anglo-Saxon
"Sinners in the Hands"
Jonathan Edwards
believed that beauty is truth
John Keats
losing faith
"Young Goodman Brown"
repetition in successive lines
anaphora
This era believed "Sola Scriptura"
Puritan
"The Author to Her Book"
known as England’s blind poet
John Milton
mournful remembrance
"The Raven"
speaking to an inanimate object or idea
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