Romanticism
What is Romanticism?
Style of writing from the 1800's that authors show what they loved most.
What is Transcendentalism?
Give the definition and an example of the Romantic Individualist
Definition: The individual person is more important over institution or community.
Examples: Characters such as Hester Prynne, Captain Ahab, and Walt Whitman’s self in Leaves of Grass.
What are some traits of American English?
Different dialects than British English and new words for different objects
What is Westering?
The idea of moving west from the original colonies.
What is the difference between Bright and Dark Romanticism?
Bright: Everything is beautiful and good in the world
Dark: Believing that crime and self destruction are the prime of human nature.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What does Transcendentalism relate back to?
Romanticism
Give the definition of the Transcendental Seeker. Then, state who were the main authors of Transcendentalists.
Definition: Someone who has a feeling one oneness with all that is beautiful and good.
Main Authors: Emerson and Thoreau
What are some traits of the "Barbaric Yawp?"
Writers finding their own voices during the American Renaissance and "The American Sound"
What is Self-Reliance?
The idea that you can think for yourself
Bright: Emerson and Thoreau
Dark: Poe
Who are two authors that use Transcendentalism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Give the definition and an example of the Frontiersman.
Definition: Characters who were described as woodsmen in fictional stories. They were described as one with the wilderness.
Examples: Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, John Henry, and Natty Bumppo
Who had the greatest "Barbaric Yawp?"
Walt Whitman
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What did the idea of "a city upon a hill" for America become because of westering?
"the garden of the world"
What did Thoreau express what Bright Romanticism was?
"The sun is a morning star"
What did Emerson write that related to Transcendentalism?
"The individual is the world"
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What phrase describes "The Transcendental Seeker?"
Self-Love and Nature Seeker
What are some traits of Triumph of the Colloquial?
What does Self-Reliance relate to today that America is built around?
Freedom
Romanticism emphasized the _____ over the institution and the ______ over the community?
Individual, person
What do you feel with Transcendentalism in your heart?
You feel oneness with god
What did the Frontiersmen characters help identify America as?
Bold, Self-Reliant, and "uncorrupted" by civilization.
What did Walt Whitman have to create his American sound?
Plain and Elegant, High and Low, Foreign and Native. It mainly mixed the British English and American English together.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What part of American history was part of the national identity?
Westward Expansion