Romantic Poetry
In Old Ironsides, Oliver Wendell Holmes argues against the destruction of this famous warship.
What is the USS Constitution?
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge takes place during this war.
What is the American Civil War?
What is a field hand?
Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl under this pen name.
Who is Linda Brent?
This poet wrote I Hear America Singing and Song of Myself.
Who is Walt Whitman?
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow symbolizes the passage of time and this inevitable fate for all humans.
What is death?
The protagonist, Peyton Farquhar, is being executed by this method.
What is hanging?
Douglass never faces this punishment after his last encounter with Mr. Covey.
What is a beating?
In "Month of Peril," Linda hides in this location to evade Dr. Flint’s pursuit.
What is her grandmother’s attic (or crawl space)?
In Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Emily Dickinson personifies death as this kind of figure.
What is a polite or gentlemanly carriage driver?
The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell uses snowfall as a metaphor for this emotional experience.
What is grief and healing after loss?
Farquhar is tricked into attempting to sabotage the bridge by this type of soldier.
What is a Federal Scout?
Douglass does this to Mr. Covey when he tries to tie him up in the horse stables.
What is fight back?
Linda visits her friend with this name after escaping the Flints.
Who is Sally?
In Success is Counted Sweetest, Dickinson argues that people who lack success appreciate it the most, using this type of person as an example.
What is a defeated soldier?
In Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant encourages people to view death in this way, rather than as something to fear.
What is a natural and peaceful return to the earth and nature?
If this story was written by a pure realist, it would most likely end at this point in the story.
Frederick Douglass goes to this person to complain about Mr. Covey's treatment of him.
Who is Master Thomas?
What is send the family to prison?
Beat! Beat! Drums! is a call to arms inspired by this war.
What is the American Civil War?
In A Psalm of Life, Longfellow warns against a passive life and instead encourages this kind of approach to living.
What is active, purposeful living and leaving a legacy?
Bierce’s story explores the theme of the thin boundary between reality and illusion, demonstrated by this shocking twist at the end.
What is "Farquhar never actually escapes—his apparent escape is just a hallucination in the moments before his death"?
Douglass describes his original beatings very plainly to emphasize the fact that they were this type of occurrence.
What is a normal occurrence?
The internal conflict that Linda faces early on in the story.
What is the decision to leave her family?
In Song of Myself, Whitman explores the idea of the self being both individual and universal by using this poetic technique, which blends personal experience with broader themes of nature and humanity.
What is free verse and transcendentalism?