Walt Whitman
Who does the Captain of Oh Captain My Captain represent?
Who is Abraham Lincoln
How does Emerson view Nature?
What is he sees it as both happy and sad
What type of land did Thoreu want to buy?
What is Farm
what is the Human Spirit, Nature, and the Supreme Being.
Transcendentalism originated in which region of the US?
What is New England
In the Preface of Leaves of Grass, what are Whitman's feelings toward The United States?
What is He loved America / Patriotism/Nationalism
What is the central theme of Self Reliance?
What is the importance of trusting one's own instincts and intuition over societal norms and expectations/individualism
In Civil Disobedience what type of government does Thoreau believe is best?
What is small government/one that governs least
What was the main poetic structure of many of the poems we read?
What is Free Verse
Transcendentalist authors typically wrote in what style of writing?
In I Hear America Singing what type of people were the ones mentioned by Whitman?
What is The Working Class
In both essays what is the main reoccurring theme
What is Individualism
What war was happening at the time of Civil Disobedience?
What did transcendentalists believe was more important than logic?
What is intuition/insight
Transcendentalism revolved around which 3 beliefs
From On the Beach at Night Alone what is the tone of this text?
What is Somber and Optimistic
"There comes a point in every man's education where he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance," This phrase is mainly speaking about which of the 5 Pillars of Transcendentalism
What is nonconformity, and self reliance
From Walden what does the phrase "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us..."
What are the 5 Pillars of Transcendentalism
What is Nonconformity, Self Reliance, Free Thought, Confidence, and Importance of Nature.
When did Transcendentalism begin?
What is mid 1800's
From Stanza 14 of Song of Myself lines 11 to 14 it states "I am enamored of growing outdoors, Of men that lived among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods, of the builders and steers of ships and the welders of axes and mauls and the drivers of horses, I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out." What is the central theme of this passage?
What is He desires to be among the working class as they get to experience life through natures eyes.
When was Nature Published?
What is 1836
When did Thoreau begin his experiment at Walden?
What is Independence Day 1845
What word was at the center of the Transcendentalist ideologies and means to have outstanding spiritual intellectual or moral worth?
What is Sublime
Did we enjoy reading these poems?
What is no