What is Transcendentalism?
Nature
Walden
Whitman
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
This is itself a child, the produced babe of vegetation...and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves
What is grass?
100
"envy is ignorance; imitation is _________"
What is "suicide?"
100
"The government is best which governs _____."
What is least?
100
How Dickinson describes "Hope."
What is the "thing with feathers"?
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
Whitman was born in this place
What is Long Island?
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
These are "handled with a Chain"
Who are those who "Demur"
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
Poetic form that removes rhyme scheme and meter, frequently credited to Walt Whitman
What is free verse?
300
"No law can be sacred to me but _________[this]"
What is "my nature"?
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
Whitman's line expressing transcendentalist turning away from formal religion and education to pursue individual reflection?
What is "Creeds and schools in abeyance"?
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 (Dickinson's term that parallels Emerson's)
What is a discerning Eye?
500
what we become when all mean egotism vanishes and we are part or partical of God
What is a transparent eyeball?
500
Thoreau uses this metaphor to describe time, which is fleeting and yet eternal.
What is a "stream" (I go a-fishing in)"?
500
Where the corpse of Whitman exists, according to "Song of Myself"
Where is "under your boot-soles" or in the "leaves of grass"
500
"To be great is to be ___________"
What is "misunderstood"?
500
"Let your life be a counter-friction" to stop this if injustice is part of it.
What is "the machine of government"
500
Dickinson's characterization of the divine inspiration individuals have to resist norms and follow one's intuition
What is "Much Madness"?