What is Transcendentalism?
Nature
Walden
The American Scholar
Self-Reliance
Civil Disobedience
Dickinson
100
Decades when Transcendentalism began in America.
What are the 1830's and 1840's
100
"To go into_____ a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society."
What is solitude?
100
Thoreau wanted to live deep and suck the ____ out of life.
What is "marrow"?
100
The best of things well used; abused, among the worst.
What are books?
100
"envy is ignorance; imitation is _________"
What is "suicide?"
100
"The government is best which governs _____."
What is least?
100
Dickinson says that this bird is like a chorister.
What is a Bobolink?
200
Where most of the original Transcendentalists were from.
What is New England (or mostly around Boston or Concord).
200
These come out every night and awaken a sense of awe.
What are the stars?
200
a word (beginning with S) that Thoreau uses repeatedly to urge us to reduce our affairs and make our lives less complicated
What is "simplicity" or "simplify"?
200
In the fable Emerson shares, he compares society to ______.
What is One Man?
200
"Whoso would be a man must be a _________."
What is a "nonconformist?"
200
Thoreau protested this war in the late 1840s.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
"Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice," but Dickinson wears these.
What are "(her) wings?"
300
What Transcendentalists saw as proof of God
What is Nature?
300
People own farms and fields, but no one owns this.
What is the landscape?
300
How long Henry David Thoreau lived in his cabin at Walden Pond.
What is 2 years, 2 months and 2 days.
300
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. famously dubbed this address America's _________.
What is "Intellectual Declaration of Independence."
300
"to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is ______"
What is "genius"?
300
"Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes _______"
What is "inexpedient"?
300
Dickinson wrote, "I taste a liquor never brewed" from these ale vessels "scooped in pearl."
What are tankards?
400
The chief aim of Transcendentalism is to recognize this.
What is our inner-voice or intuition.
400
"In the woods a man may cast off his years and is always a _________."
What is a child?
400
The best part of Thoreau's day--when he is most awake.
What is the morning?
400
Instead of being a parrot of other scholars, Emerson encourages listeners to be a "Man" of this action.
What is "Thinking?"
400
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own _______"
What is "mind"?
400
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a ______"
What is a "prison" or jail?
400
In "Intoxication", Dickinson's speaker is not "drunk" on liquor, but on what instead?
What is nature?
500
the intuition within each of us is part of this larger, metaphysical reality
What is the Over-Soul?
500
what we become when all mean egotism vanishes and we are part or partical of God
What is a transparent eyeball?
500
Thoreau used this metaphor to declare he didn't want to live a confined, hidden life, preferring instead to be "on the deck of the world."
What is a "cabin passage?"
500
What Emerson refers to as our dictionary.
What is life!?
500
"To be great is to be ___________"
What is "misunderstood"?
500
"But a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in ________."
What is humanity?
500
While Transcendentalists believed in God, they rejected organized _______, as Dickinson does in "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church".
What is "religion"?