Final Exam Flashcards
what passage does this come from? “beans… daily work”
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
what passage does this come from? “antiquity…fungi”
Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
fill in the blank: disease of the lady ________
Madeline
elements of gothic literature
1.) Place and Time
2.) Power
3.) Sexual Power
4.) The Uncanny
5.) The sublime
6.) Crisis
7.) Supernatural and the Real
forest stuff
young Goodman brown, hawthorne
talks about jobs
I hear america singing, whitman
bloody stump
wounded dresser, whitman
Why was the wound dresser shocking for its time?
opened people’s eyes about war, REALISM (soldiers perspective)
civil war, final resting place
Gettysburg address, lincoln
we cannot dedicate
parallelism
boots of lead again
I felt a funeral in my brain, Emily dickinson
who’s most famous works were speeches?
lincoln
terrified of his puritan heritage?
hawthorne
influenced ghandi and MLK jr
Thoreau
What did Poe believe about literature?
that is was just an art form, no deeper meaning.