Notes Era of optimism (Unit4)

Question 1

……year…… Romanticism denominated American Literature.

Answer 1

1820-1865

Denominated = อยู่เหนือ

Question 2

Romantic writes …. for universal themes and forms.

Answer 2

Strove = พยายามหนัก

Question 3

U….: a romantic view of a perfect world based on either …………… or ………..

Answer 3

• Utopia
• past innocence
• future self realization

Question 4

What title is this one?

• 1850-1855
• A five years burst of creature energy resulting in influential works.

Answer 4

American Renaissance

Question 5

The Favored are all of these except?

1) Experimentation
2) organicism
3) optimism
4) rationality

Answer 5

Rationality

Question 6

5 central concepts of Unitarianism?

Answer 6

1)Fatherhood of God
2)Brotherhood of Man
3)Leadership of Jesus
4)Salvation by character(good works):Denied the facts of salvation and damnation
5)The Inevitable progress of mankind.
Salvation=การช่วยชีวิต
Damnation=การแช่ง

Question 7

Unitarianism threw out the doctrine of ………. inspiration and denied the facts of the depravity of man.

Answer 7

Biblical

Question 8

4 Keys Elements of American Romanticism

Answer 8

1. Individualism (Humanism came in)
2. Imagination (It like a free time for after their colony
3. Nature (Pantheism:God with force and laws of universe)
4. The distant (two spects:space and time & least objectionable to the puritans.)

Question 9

4 Keys Elements of American Romanticism(tell the 4 keys then read)

Answer 9

Individualism
-Regarded man as an individual.
-This doctrine of individualism.
also contributed to the optimistic but native
nation than man is not a fallen creature.

Imagination
-Romantics considered the imagination to be of primary importance in literary creation.

Nature

• Pantheism:doctrine that equates God w/force and laws of universe (nature)
• It provided romantics both the means of knowing truth and actual subject matter of their literature.
• they gave nature a much high position of importance over 18th century writers.
• Believed God is understandable only through nature.

The distant

• Least objectionable to the Puritans.
• Two aspects (space and time).

Question 10

Romantics believed (6things)

• improved man ……………………………… from his environment.
• God is understandable only through ……………
• Man is not a …………….., but basically good.
• Man could fulfill his potential without ………………………
• Individual man is …………. to man in the mass.
• Individual teaching is elevated over ………………….

Answer 10

• removing negative influence
• nature
• fallen creature
• supernatural regeneration.
• superior
• the truth revealed in God’s world.

Question 11

Romanticism was a ……. against literary values.

Answer 11

Revolt กบฏ

Question 12

Romanticism,during this time American literature matured and the U.S. won literary independence from …….

Answer 12

England

Question 13

Romanticism

It brought ………….. to American letters,writers made important contributions to the short story and the novel.

Answer 13

respectability

Question 14

What are the four names of literary groups of Romanticism?

Answer 14

1. Knickerbockers
2. New England School
3. Transcendental optimists
4. Transcendental Pessimists

Question 15

Literary groups of Romanticism

“Knickerbockers”

Answer 15

Irving, cooper, and Bryant.

Question 16

Literary groups of Romanticism

“New England school”

Answer 16

Longfellow, Whitter, Lowell, and Holmes.(AKA schoolroom poets)

Question 17

Literary groups of Romanticism

“Transcendental optimists”

Answer 17

Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman.

Question 18

Literary groups of Romanticism

“Transcendental Pessimists”

Answer 18

Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville.

Question 19

During this time the major rift between …….. region and ……… region.

Answer 19

The North and The South