Walden
The Devil and Tom Walker
Self-Reliance
Walt Whitman Poetry
Transcendentalism Random
100
Date that Thoreau went into the woods.
What is the fourth of July
100
Tom Walker's relationship with God
What is fake
100
What does it mean to be self-reliant?
What is to depend on yourself
100
In "I Hear America Singing," what do the songs come together to create?
What is America OR the American Voice
100
The father of Transcendentalism
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
200
Pond by Thoreau's cabin (also name of story)
What is Walden Pond
200
This story takes place in...
What is New England (Boston, MA.)
200
Imitation is...
What is suicide
200
Whitman's poetry was not well liked because it was considered to be this type of poetry.
What is free verse
200
The time period in which Transcendentalism takes place.
What is the 1800s (1840-1860)
300
Reason Thoreau went to the woods.
What is to live life deliberately
300
Tom Walker agrees to become what?
What is a usurer
300
What reason does Emerson give for not conforming?
Others have chosen not to conform, and they turned out OK...Capernicus, Luther, Einstein, etc.
300
In "I Sit and Look Out," what does the narrator do at the end of the poem?
What is hear, see, and is quiet
300
Transcendentalism was a reaction to
What is reason and rationalism of the times
400
Reason Thoreau states for leaving the woods.
What is he had other lives to live.
400
Irving takes a shot at this institution through Tom's fake acts.
What is church
400
Emerson believes that you need to do what to your life?
What is simplify, simplify, simplify
400
In "Song of Myself," what does the first stanza suggest about the reader and narrator?
What is they are one person (every atom of my being belongs to you as well as me)
400
Transcendentalism took place mostly in
What is the New England states
500
The land that Thoreau stayed on belonged to
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
500
Tom Walker is taken to hell because
What is he never repented, and the devil made good on the deal
500
Emerson refused to do this act which caused him to do time in jail
What is pay taxes
500
Portrayed ordinary working people.
What is "I Hear America Singing"
500
Name three ideals that are Transcendental in nature...
- No middle man with God - Did not believe in organized religion - Only listen to laws that make sense to you - Non-conformity - Other...
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