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Research Paper. 10 th Grade. Puritans. Saw direct connections between Biblical events and their own lives Used writing to explore their inner and outer lives for signs of the workings of God Diaries and histories were the most common form of expression

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  1. Research Paper 10th Grade

  2. Puritans • Saw direct connections between Biblical events and their own lives • Used writing to explore their inner and outer lives for signs of the workings of God • Diaries and histories were the most common form of expression • Plain style- avoided complicated figures of speech

  3. Rationalists • People arrive at truth by using reason rather than by relying on the authority of the past, on religion, or on intuition • God created the universe but does not interfere in its workings • The world works according to God’s rules, and we can discover those rules through reason • People are basically good and perfectible • The best way to worship God is by helping other people • Human history is marked by progress toward a more perfect existence

  4. Romantics 1 • Value feeling and intuition over reason • Faith in inner experiences and the power of the imagination • Shuns artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature • Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication • Individual freedom and worth of the individual

  5. Romantics 2 • Contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development • Looks backward to the past and distrusts progress • Finds beauty and truth in exotic locales and the supernatural realm • Sees poetry as the highest expression of the imagination • Find inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture

  6. Transcendentalism • Everything in the world is a reflection of the Divine Soul • The physical facts of the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual, or ideal world • People can use their intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls • Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition • Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality

  7. Dark Romantics • Value intuition over logic and reason • Saw signs and symbols in human events • Their view of existence developed from both the mystical and melancholy aspects of Puritan thought • Explored the conflict between good and evil • Explored the psychological effects of guilt and sin • Explored the madness and derangement of the human psyche

  8. New American Poetry • Walt Whitman • Cadence • Free verse • Lets loose his passion, philosophy, and observations in a torrent of language • Emily Dickinson • Neat stanzas • Controlled rhyme and meter • Aimed to evoke the feelings of things • Private thoughts and feelings

  9. Realism • Became  the predominant style  of writing after the Civil War • Relied on the emerging sciences of biology, psychology, and sociology • Tried to depict life accurately without idealizing  or romanticizing it • Often focused on  the lives of  middle or lower class people of the time period

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