1 / 6

The Study Guide of the Century

The Study Guide of the Century. SchoolRoom Poets, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Optimists & Pessimists. Romanticism . Individualism Nature Imagination Distant SchoolRoom poets -Taught in a school -Memorized -Cultural provincialism [Universality] Longfellow (

eman
Download Presentation

The Study Guide of the Century

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Study Guide of the Century SchoolRoom Poets, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Optimists & Pessimists

  2. Romanticism • Individualism • Nature • Imagination • Distant • SchoolRoom poets -Taught in a school -Memorized -Cultural provincialism [Universality] • Longfellow ( • Holmes (Chambered Nautilus) • Whittier (Ichabod – abolitionist) • Lowell (A Fable for Critique)

  3. Transcendentalism • All about man • Man is above all (Individualism) • Pantheism: worship of the universe as god -Oversoul: Spirit that leads to ‘God’ through every avenue • Egotism (type of Individualism) • Emerson – godfather of Transcendentalism • Nature = bible of Transcendentalism • Truth = internal & subjective • Pseudo-religion

  4. Optimism • Man is improving • Man is a deity • Legacy – self-achievement -Thoreau was governed by his conscience • Light • Nature is revered • Thoreau – anarchy [Civil Disobedience] • Emerson – nature [Nature] • Whitman – freedom [Song of Myself]

  5. Pessimism • Man is degenerating • Dark, gloomy doom doom • No hope offered for sin • Nature is twisted & terrifying – feared • Critical of the Transcendental movement • Poe [The Raven] – Really pretty words, no serious content • Hawthorne [The Maypole of Merry Mount] • Melville [Bartleby]

  6. What I’m looking for. • Find the connection between the literature & the thoughts. Find example in the themes & major points of the written work that match how the writer thinks. • Be able to compare the common themes in Romanticism, Transcendental Optimism, & Pessimism.

More Related