Romantic Poetry
Poem in which a guy dies, most likely from drowning.
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
One famous person of the Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller
Celebrated the individual.
Individuality
The name for the group of Romantic painters.
The Hudson River School
POV Irving and Hawthorne mostly used
Third person
Author of "Thanatopsis"
William Cullen Bryant
The name of the club that Thoreau, Emerson, and Fuller were a part of.
The Transcendental Club
Emphasized over reason. This was a backlash against the scientific rationalism of the “Age of Reason.”
Imagination
The founder of the Hudson River School.
Thomas Cole
the symbol of the black veil the minister wore
secret sin
Poem in which the meter sounds like waves.
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The religion/sect of Christianity that Transcendentalism was based on.
Unitarianism
The concept that we can make the world a better place and that man is innately good.
Idealism
A series of five paintings created by Thomas Cole. On of the painting is titled "The Savage State"
The Course of Empire
Type of story with a moral or religious lesson
Parable
Name that poem:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / Life is but an empty dream! / For the soul is dead that slumbers, / And things are not what they seem.
A Psalm of Life by Longfellow
Philosophical metaphor used by Ralph Waldo Emerson to describe a state of being that can only be achieved in nature.
“transparent eye ball” metaphor
Nature
Inspiration
Often used Niagara Falls and The Northern Lights as the subject of his paintings.
Frederic Edwin Church
Writes horror stories and uses dark imagery
Edgar Allen Poe
His daughter died
"The First Snowfall" by Lowe
It represents a way of viewing life that is open to all that nature has to offer, without bias or contradiction.
"transparent eyeball"
Valued over reason. Emotions were important in Romantic art.
Intuition
Painted "Landscape, Scene from 'Thanatopsis'," 1850
Asher B. Durand
The "I" Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe often strayed from in Romanticism.
Idealism