English Flowering of New England – Flashcards
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Dates for Flowering of New England
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1840-1860
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Transcendentalism
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The belief that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond our five senses. Values reason and intuition. Believed world was inherently good
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Anti-Transcendentalists
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Saw that the world was clearly flawed. Examples are Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.
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Fireside Poets
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Wrote for a family audience on subjects of general appeal. Included James Lowell, Henry Longfellow, Oliver Holmes, and John Whittier
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Charles Finney
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Preacher who helped spark revival in Northeast
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Nature and Self-Reliance
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Genre: Novel Summary: Both works supporting the ideas of transcendentalism and the importance of the relationship between man and nature
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Walden
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Author: Henry David Thoreau Genre: Novel Summary: Spoke of his time living in seclusion in a small cabin by a lake, away from mankind. Values man's relationship with nature
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"The Rhodora"
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Genre: Poem Summary: answers the question, why does a flower bloom in such a secluded spot? The answer is that it needs no reason, and that whatever force placed it there brought Emerson there too.
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"Concord Hymn"
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Genre: Song Summary:Written for the dedication of a monument commemorating those who fought the British at the battles of Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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"The Minister's Black Veil"
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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Genre: Parable Summary: Minister wears a veil over his face as a symbol and is reviled by all of his congregation for it. Heavy emphasis on secret sin
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Moby Dick
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Author: Herman Melville Genre: Novel Summary: Peg-legged Captain Ahab spends much of his life searching for the white whale Moby Dick on a quest for vengeance Important Facts: Depravity of man vs. Goodness of man Considered metaphysical A "wicked book" Symbolism and Biblical Allusions
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"A Psalm of Life"
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Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Genre: Psalm Summary: What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist. Live in the present. Leave a legacy
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"Snowbound"
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Author: John Greenleaf Whittier Genre: Narrative Poem Summary:Group of people trapped in a farmhouse and slowly become representatives of the human race in many eras and cultures as the story progresses. Heavy us of imagery
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"Old Ironsides"
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Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Genre: Poem Summary: Written as a protest against the destruction of the ship "Old Ironsides"
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"The Courtin"
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Author: James Russell Lowell Genre: Poem Summary: Poem about country life and a boy wooing a girl. Heavy use of dialect
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"Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
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Author: Emily Dickinson Genre: Poem Summary: Personified Death and spoke of the journeyto the afterlife
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Dialect
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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Parable
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A metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life and told in a simple story or riddle; it uses comparisons to teach a moral or lesson.
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Symbol
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A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
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Metaphor
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figure of speech comparing two different things
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Allusion
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A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
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Simile
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A comparison using like or as
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Mood
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Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
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Speaker of the Poem
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the voice of the poem
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Emily Dickinson
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-Poet -Didn't become popular until after her death -Many of her poems still famous today
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-Father of Transcendentalism -Valued nature and self -Viewed nature as a means of self-knowledge
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Henry David Thoreau
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-Transcendentalist -Followed closely in Emerson's footsteps
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Herman Mellville
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-Spent his early life at sea -Raised In the Dutch Reformed Church, but later questioned God -Anti-Transcendentalist -Used his sea knowledge in writing Moby Dick
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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--Anti-Transcendentalist -Stressed dangers of isolation and secret sins
