Fireside Poets🔥 Flashcards
What were the 4 reasons Fireside Poets were so popular?
- They created verse that was inspired by the average reader
- The verse was written to be understood by the average reader
- They were conservative, which enabled it to be a family affair
- They showed a blatant morality
Name 3 of the 5 most popular Fireside poets.
- William Cullen Bryant
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- James Russell Lowell
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Emily Dickinson
Name This Author: He was a lawyer by trade
Bryant
Name This Author: He walked 7 miles to get to his practice and this inspired him to write “To a Waterfowl”
Bryant
Name Bryant’s best known works. (4)
- “Thanatopsis”
- “The Yellow Violet”
- “Green River”
- “To a Waterfowl”
Name The Author: Was apart of the last generation of highly regarded writers
Holmes
Name The Author: He made contributions in both medicine and literature
Holmes
Name Holmes’ best known works. (4)
- Old Ironsides
- A Parody On “a Psalm Of Life”
- “The Iron Gate”
- “The Chambered Naitilus”
Name The Author: Only American to have a bust in the poets corner of Westminister Abbey
Longfellow
Name The Author: His work was translated into two dozen different languages
Longfellow
Name The Author: He created a national interest in poetry
Longfellow
Name Longfellow’s best known works. (3)
- “A Psalm of Life”
- “Hiawatha”
- “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Name The Author: One of the least popular of the Fireside poets, but considered one of the most talented
Lowell
Name The Author: His personal life tragedies overshadowed his literary success by losing three of his children followed by his wife
Lowell
Name Lowell’s best known works. (3)
- “A Fable of Critics” (1848)
- “The Vision of Sir Launfal” (1848)
- “The Bigelow Papers” (1848, written in Yankee dialect)
Name The Author: Born in poverty and received no formal education and got deeply involved in social issues
Whittier
Name The Author: He did not gain national prominences as a poet until late in life because of a devotion to the abolitionist movement
Whittier
Name Whittier’s best known works. (2)
- “Barbara Frietchie”
- Snowbound
Name The Author: Considered one of the founders of modern American poetry
Emily Dickinson
Name The Author: Wrote 1,775 poems in 56 years
Emily Dickinson
Name The Author: Rarely left her home and refused to leave the final 10 years of her life and dressed in only white
Emily Dickinson
Name The Author: Had agoraphobia
Emily Dickinson
Define agoraphobia.
Afraid of open spaces
Name 4 of 6 of Emily Dickinson’s unconventional writing.
- Punctuation
- Capitalization
- Brief stanzas and line
- Figurative languages
- Quatrains and second and fourth lines rhyme
- Slant rhyme
How many of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published during her lifetime? Why?
7- bc she published anonymously
Who discovered Emily Dickinson poems in a drawer after her death?
Her sister
Emily Dickinson: When was her first book published and how did they get titles for her poems?
Published in 1900- they took the first line of the poem
Name Emily Dickinson best known works. (3)
- “Because I could not stop for Death” (479)
- “The Soul selects her own society” (393)
- “I heard a fly buzz- When I died”
Name 3 facts about Fireside Poets.
- They were the first group of American poets to rival British poets in popularity
- They preferred conventional forms in their work over the use of experimental ones
- They more often that not used American legends or locations or scenes from American life as their subject matter
