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It is said to that people in this time did not choose where they ended up and that everything was planned out for them by a bigger power. What is this called?
Predestination
Romanticism was the rebelling against what?
Society
What was transcendentalism based around?
Nature and individualism
I went to the woods because I wished to live __________.
deliberately
What type of Government did the Puritans follow?
Theocracy
What was Romantistism based around?
Nature and emotions
How is Transcendentalism different than Romanticism
focuses on nature and not on the rebelling
The tide ________, the tide ________.
"rises" and "falls"
"Simplify! Simplify!"
Henry David Thoreau
How many years did the Romantic period last in American Literature?
50 years, 1800-1850
What did the writers of Transcendentalism believe in?
relationship between nature and humans
This poem's epigraph reads, "What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist."
"A Psalm of Life"
He wrote an essay called "Civil Disobedience."
Henry David Thoreau
What are is Characteristics of the Romantic Hero?
young, innocent and pure of purpose
What were the major elements of Transcendentalism?
God, Faith, Nature
in "The Devil and Tom Walker", why are the trees marked with the men's names?
men who have made deals with the devil, selling their souls in exchange for wealth or power
This work by Emerson advocates intense autonomous dependence.
"Self-Reliance"
What was Romanistism's main purpose?
to rebel against society
What is Transcendentalism's biggest theme?
Nature and everything was about Nature
This body of water near Concord, CT, has literary significance.
What is Walden Pond?