Eras
Chivalry
Medieval
supreme poet of nature
Wordsworth
Solitude and simplicity brings happiness
Ode on Solitude
speaking to an inanimate object or idea
apostrophe
a child
Deism
Restoration/Neoclassical
first African-American poet published
Phillis Wheatley
All men are in need of God's mercy
"Sinners in the Hands"
metaphysical conceit
understand your audience, show vice for vice, depict reality
Code of Comitatus
Anglo-Saxon
famous colonial preacher
Jonathan Edwards
God uses us despite our weakness
"On His Blindness"
repetition in successive lines
anaphora
Benjamin Franklin admitted that this was the hardest virtue to subdue
pride
Sola Scriptura
Puritan
England's first poet laureate
John Dryden
nature's destructive and preservative power
"Ode to the West Wind"
referring to a previous time in history, Greek mythology, or the Bible
allusion
ideas discussed in Letters from an American Farmer
American freedoms/responsibilities
Pantheism
Romantic
metaphysical poets
Donne and Herbert
finding truth and permanence in beauty
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
contradictory terms used to express a higher truth
paradox
young couple, tree