Emerson
Where was Emerson Born
What is Boston, Massachusetts
Thoreau's most famous work.
what is Walden
What was Thoreau's purpose in writing "Walden"?
What is he wanted to live simply.
The amount of time Thoreau spent a Walden Pond.
What is two years.
Whitman wrote "Song of Myself" in this style.
What is free verse.
Who was his first wife and how did she die?
Who is Ellen Tucker, tuberculosis
What is Self-Reliance about?
What is people should avoid conformity and trust their intuition and ideas.
Thoreau used nature as a way to...
What is ~replenish the soul
~maintain simplicity
~reconnect oneself from where they came from
Envy is ______, Imitation is ______.
what is Ignorance, Suicide
Whitman, along with other Transcendentalists, condemned ________.
What is slavery.
What was the main reason he left the ministry?
What is he was grief stricken over his wife's death.
Whitman's collection of poetry including "Song of Myself" is named...
What is Leaves of Grass.
Name two of Thoreau's jobs during his life.
What is opening up a school with his brother; a tutor/mentor to Emerson's children; a handyman for Emerson;
Who is one semi-present day person that Transcendentalism influenced?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr. - Ghandi- JFK
Name three topics discussed in Whitman's Song of Myself.
What are individualism, sexuality, death, the journey of life, equality, nature, democracy.
Who was one person he influenced?
Who is Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman
Name Two of Emerson's Works.
What is "Self-Reliance," "Nature,"
Thoreau was ____ when he died of ______.
what is he was 44 of tuberculosis
What did Emerson name his son?
What is Waldo
Whitman used this technique to unify ideas.
What is parrallelism.
What is the name of his most famous essay?
What is "Self-Reliance"
This work of Thoreau's has the same name as a technique used by Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is "Civil Disobedience"
These historical figures utilized the ideas of Transcendentalism reflected by Thoreau.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr., JFK, and Ghandi
What is the name of the Transcendental magazine founded by Emerson?
What is The Dial
Whitman and Dickinson shared this similarity in writing.
What is abandonment of literary conventions.