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Fireside Poets🔥 Flashcards

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What were the 4 reasons Fireside Poets were so popular?

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  1. They created verse that was inspired by the average reader
  2. The verse was written to be understood by the average reader
  3. They were conservative, which enabled it to be a family affair
  4. They showed a blatant morality
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Name 3 of the 5 most popular Fireside poets.

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  • William Cullen Bryant
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • James Russell Lowell
  • John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Emily Dickinson
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Name This Author: He was a lawyer by trade

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Bryant

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Name This Author: He walked 7 miles to get to his practice and this inspired him to write “To a Waterfowl”

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Bryant

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Name Bryant’s best known works. (4)

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  • “Thanatopsis”
  • “The Yellow Violet”
  • “Green River”
  • “To a Waterfowl”
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Name The Author: Was apart of the last generation of highly regarded writers

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Holmes

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Name The Author: He made contributions in both medicine and literature

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Holmes

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Name Holmes’ best known works. (4)

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  • Old Ironsides
  • A Parody On “a Psalm Of Life”
  • “The Iron Gate”
  • “The Chambered Naitilus”
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Name The Author: Only American to have a bust in the poets corner of Westminister Abbey

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Longfellow

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Name The Author: His work was translated into two dozen different languages

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Longfellow

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Name The Author: He created a national interest in poetry

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Longfellow

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Name Longfellow’s best known works. (3)

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  • “A Psalm of Life”
  • “Hiawatha”
  • “Paul Revere’s Ride”
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Name The Author: One of the least popular of the Fireside poets, but considered one of the most talented

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Lowell

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Name The Author: His personal life tragedies overshadowed his literary success by losing three of his children followed by his wife

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Lowell

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Name Lowell’s best known works. (3)

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  • “A Fable of Critics” (1848)
  • “The Vision of Sir Launfal” (1848)
  • “The Bigelow Papers” (1848, written in Yankee dialect)
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Name The Author: Born in poverty and received no formal education and got deeply involved in social issues

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Whittier

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Name The Author: He did not gain national prominences as a poet until late in life because of a devotion to the abolitionist movement

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Whittier

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Name Whittier’s best known works. (2)

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  • “Barbara Frietchie”

- Snowbound

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Name The Author: Considered one of the founders of modern American poetry

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Emily Dickinson

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Name The Author: Wrote 1,775 poems in 56 years

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Emily Dickinson

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Name The Author: Rarely left her home and refused to leave the final 10 years of her life and dressed in only white

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Emily Dickinson

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Name The Author: Had agoraphobia

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Emily Dickinson

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Define agoraphobia.

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Afraid of open spaces

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Name 4 of 6 of Emily Dickinson’s unconventional writing.

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  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Brief stanzas and line
  • Figurative languages
  • Quatrains and second and fourth lines rhyme
  • Slant rhyme
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How many of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published during her lifetime? Why?

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7- bc she published anonymously

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Who discovered Emily Dickinson poems in a drawer after her death?

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Her sister

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Emily Dickinson: When was her first book published and how did they get titles for her poems?

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Published in 1900- they took the first line of the poem

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Name Emily Dickinson best known works. (3)

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  • “Because I could not stop for Death” (479)
  • “The Soul selects her own society” (393)
  • “I heard a fly buzz- When I died”
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Name 3 facts about Fireside Poets.

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  • 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

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