Romanticism
The literary period in Britain roughly between 1780 and 1830 that emphasized emotion, imagination, and nature.
What is the Romantic period?
The William Blake poem that describes suffering and injustice in an industrial city.
What is “London”?
The real name of the main character in Into the Wild.
Who is Christopher McCandless?
The minerals important for electronics and green technology that are often discussed in relation to Greenland’s resources.
What are rare earth minerals?
The Native American leader who supposedly gave a famous speech about land and nature.
Who is Chief Seattle?
The English poet who wrote the poem “The Tables Turned.”
Who is William Wordsworth?
The American writer who published the 1968 essay “Nature and the City.”
Who is Eric Hoffer?
The new name McCandless gives himself during his journey.
Who is Alexander Supertramp?
The Greenlandic geologist who argues that the idea of huge mineral wealth in Greenland is a “mirage.”
Who is Minik Rosing?
The year in which the speech is believed to have been given to Washington Territory governor Isaac Stevens.
What is 1854?
In “The Tables Turned,” Wordsworth says we should “come forth into the light of things” and let this be our teacher.
What is nature?
Humanity’s true home according to Hoffer.
What is the city?
The U.S. state where McCandless goes to live in the wilderness.
What is Alaska?
The television program that produced the documentary “US, China and Russia's new battleground: Greenland's untapped rare earths.”
What is 60 Minutes Australia?
The settler who published the oldest extant transcript of the speech in 1887.
Who is Henry A. Smith?
The English poet who wrote “The Ecchoing Green.”
Who is William Blake?
The famous river the speaker walks along in William Blake’s poem “London.”
What is the Thames?
The abandoned vehicle that becomes McCandless’ home in the wilderness.
What is the Magic Bus?
The country that dominates the global refining and processing of rare earth minerals.
What is China?
A source produced during the time of an event or based directly on original evidence.
What is a primary source?
The things Wordsworth claims people learn less from than from nature in “The Tables Turned.”
What are books?
The children who suffer because they must work cleaning chimneys in William Blake’s poem “London.”
What are chimney sweepers?
The American writer and philosopher whose ideas about simple living in nature inspired McCandless.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
The Greenlandic politician who criticized the documentary and called it propaganda for a mining company.
Who is Mariane Paviasen Jensen?
The fictional environmental version of Chief Seattle’s speech created for a 1970s film script but still included in many Danish textbooks.
What is “Selling Our Land”?