A poem written by William Cullen Bryant that encourages humans to embrace and be comfortable with death.
What is THANATOPSIS
100
Deeds to make the roused blood rush life red lava through your veins
What is SIMILE
100
Characteristic of romantic literature that states romantic writers believed in the natural goodness of humans and childhood is good
What is Interest in the common man and childhood
100
In the poem, The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, who never returns to the shore
What is THE TRAVELER
100
Father; ruler; founder
What is PATRIARCH
200
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this poem as a tribute to the U.S.S. Constitution (a 44 gun warship) that helped the United States defeat the British in the War of 1812
What is OLD IRONSIDES
200
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high….
What is PERSONIFICATION
200
Characteristic of romantic literature that states romantic writers believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than deduction
What is Strong senses, emotions, and feelings
200
In the poem, Thanatopsis, why does the author say "thou shall not retire alone"?
What is BECAUSE WE WILL LIE DOWN WITH THOSE WHO DIED BEFORE (PATRIARCHS, INFANTS, KINGS, ETC.)
200
Vault for burial
What is SEPULCHER
300
In this poem, James Russell Lowell pleads with his fellow citizens to recognize the horrors of slavery and the necessity of eliminating it.
What is STANZAS ON FREEDOM
300
The hills rock ribbed and ancient as the sun…..
What is HYPERBOLE/SIMILE
300
The characteristic of romantic literature that states romantic writers stressed the awe of nature in art, language, and experience through a connection with nature.
What is Awe of nature
300
In the poem, Stanzas on Freedom, when should the "roused blood rush through the reader's veins"?
What is WHEN READERS HEAR OF WOMEN TREATED CRUELLY AND UNJUSTLY.
300
Expressing deep thoughtfulness, often mixed with sadness
What is PENSIVE
400
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this poem to demonstrate that although human life may end the cycle of nature is continuous.
What is THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS
400
The little waves, with their soft white hands
What is PERSONIFICATION
400
The characteristic of romantic literature that states romantic writers elevated the achievement of the misunderstood, heroic, individual outcast
What is Celebration of the individual
400
What does the reader encourage the reader to do in the last stanza of "A Psalm of Life"?
What is ACHIEVING, PURSUING, AND TO LABOR AND TO WAIT?
400
Lacking sensation; unaware
What is INSENSIBLE
500
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this psalm to five advice for living well on Earth.
He states we were given life for the purpose of achieving goals and working hard.
What is A PSALM OF LIFE
500
Old ocean’s gray and melancholy waste, are but the solemn decoration all of the great tomb of man
What is METAPHOR
500
The characteristic of romantic literature that states romantic writers legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority
What is Importance of Imagination
500
What does the speaker say should happen to the ship rather than let it be destroyed?
What is IT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SINK AND BE DESTROYED BY THE SEA