Values
Transcendentalism
Characteristics
Fireside Poets
Dark Romantics
100

This is where Romantics found God

What is: Nature


100

To "transcend" means to 

What is: Go beyond (or surpass) one's limits

100

Approximate years of Romanticism in the USA

What is: 1800-1865

100

A 14 line poem

What is: Sonnet

100

Mrs. K's favorite horror film

What is: Smile 2


200

Romantics wanted to leave the city for 

What is: the countryside/rural area 


200

Transcendentalists valued this "I" over society

The individual
200

Romanticism started as a reaction to...

What is: Rationalism

200

Two major themes within Fireside poetry...

What is: Life and death

200

Dark Romantics believed that nature held ____ truths.

What is: dark

300

Valued as more important than logic

imagination

300

In the excerpt from Walden, Thoreau said "I went to the woods to _ _"

"Live deliberately" 

300

Rebellion against

What is: rules

300

Metaphor used to demonstrate themes of life and death (like in the poems "October" and "November")

What is: The changing of the seasons

300

This author of novels like Stand By Me could be considered a modern Dark Romantic

Who is: Stephen King

400

Mrs. K calls the Romantics the original _ _ _

What is: "touch grass" people

400

Both Emerson and Thoreau believed society...

Stripped away one's individuality

400

Shuns the artificiality of 

What is: civilization 

400
The last names of these poets:

William Cullen

Henry Wadsworth

What is: Bryant and Longfellow

400

Three most known Dark Romantics 

What is: Poe, Melville, Hawthorne

500

Romanticism prefers youthful _______ to _______ sophistication. 

What is: innocence; educated 

500

This concept forces people to subscribe to the "norm" 

Conformity

500

This "I" refers to the concept that we can make the world a better place.

What is: idealism

500

This poet's wife died by fire to which he wrote "Cross of Snow" about

Who is: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

500

Dark Romantic literature explores the conflict between...

What is: good and evil

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