Historical Context & The Romantic Era
Romanticism was primarily a response to this historical event.
Industrial Revolution
What romantic quality does the follow quote exemplify?
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Emerson)
Celebrating the individual
Based on "I Hear America Singing," how does Walt Whitman view the laborers of America?
He admires them
Why did Thoreau choose to live in the woods for over two years?
He wanted "to live deliberately, to learn what life had to teach."
What does the raven repeatedly say in "The Raven"?
"Nevermore"
This movement was focused on the end of slavery in the United States
Abolitionism
What romantic quality does the following quote exemplify?
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." (Thoreau)
Celebrating nature
What is the central message of "My life closed twice before its close--"?
Parting from someone you love may be the closest we come in life to understanding death.
Based on Emerson's "Self-Reliance," what could be inferred about the impact society has on the individual?
It is only when we let society influence us that we start to conform and, therefore, become corrupted
How do the townspeople initially react to Mr. Hooper wearing a black veil?
They assume he has committed a great sin and think he is crazy for wearing it.
This is the belief that a country's interests as a whole should supersede regional interests.
Nationalism
What romantic quality does the following quote exemplify?
"I celebrate myself and sing myself/And what I assume you shall assume" (Whitman)
Embracing emotions
What are the three poetic devices Walt Whitman frequently uses in his free verse?
Cataloging
Repetition
Parallelism
According to "Self-Reliance," what must a man be in order to be considered a man?
A noncomformist
Who wrote "The Minister's Black Veil?"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This movement emphasized simple living, a close relationship to nature, individualism, self-reliance, and the inherent goodness of all people.
Transcendentalism
What romantic quality does the following quote exemplify?
"I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--/The Stillness in the Room/Was like the Stillness in the Air--/Between the Heaves of Storm--" (Dickinson)
Embracing/Celebrating nature
What does the house in "Because I could not stop for Death--" represent?
The speaker's grave
According to "Civil Disobedience," what kind of government is the best?
"That government is best which governs not at all."
What happens after the mysterious figure in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" is unmasked?
The prince and all of his guest die, the clock stops working, and the braziers go out.
Dark Romanticism or Gothicism
What romantic quality does the following quote exemplify?
"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night." (Poe)
Fear of nature
In what way did Whitman's Leaves of Grass fall in line with Romantic concepts?
It celebrated the beauty of nature while praising the achievements of individual people.
In "Civil Disobedience," what is Thoreau asking of the American people?
Thoreau is asking them to step forward and state what they want from the government.
What is the speaker's explanation of the raven's one word response in Poe's "The Raven"?
The speaker explains that the raven must have picked up the word from its master, who must have had exceptionally bad luck to have repeated the word often enough for the bird to learn it.