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Romanticism Test Review Flashcards

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Who are four Fireside Poets?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant

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What is “A Psalm of Life” about?

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About the circle of life.

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What might the footprints in “A Psalm of Life” represent?

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Our lives and what we have written about our lives.

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What might the shipwrecked brother represent in “A Psalm of Life?”

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Someone who is having similar problems or trouble you are

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What is “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” about?

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That death is just a part of life

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What is Longfellow’s attitude toward death in the poem “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”?

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nature and life go on

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What does “we can make our lives sublime” mean in “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”?

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We can make our lives fantastic by living life to the fullest each day.

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What is “The Chambered Nautilus” about? What does the shell represent (hint: your soul).

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That as the nautilus outgrows one page of his life, it moves on to the next. So should a person grow and move into each new stage of life.

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“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

What is the central theme?

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mourning, lost love, and regret

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“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

What literary devices do we see throughout the poem?

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alliteration, similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, assonance, internal rhyme

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“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

How does the speaker feel throughout the poem?

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depressed and sad

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“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe

What is the plot?

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Starts in jail, has a cat, hangs the cat, a fire gets Pluto the cat, kills the wife, hides her behind the wall and bricks it up. Cat meows and reveals the dead wife.

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“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe

What is significant about the cat’s name?

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Pluto - the god of the underworld where dead people are

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“Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is the plot?

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English teacher is creative, has boys look at life in a new way. Boys try new things. Neil kills him. Mr. Keating leaves. “Oh Captain, My Captain!”

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“Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What does Rappaccini do/what is his profession?

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Botanist, someone who studies plants

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“Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Whta is Giovanni studying?

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to be a botanist

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“Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is the central theme?

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Science is evil and nature can kill

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Who are the two Transcendentalist writers?

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Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What is Thoreau’s philosophy?

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To live simply and in tune with nature.

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What day did Thoreau move to Walden Pond?

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4th of July, Independence Day

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What are the seven I’s of Romanticism?

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Imagination, Individualism, Idealism, Intuition, Innocence, Inner experience, Inspiration from nature

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How did Romantics rebel against/differ from Rationalists?

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Emotion over logic of rationalism; nature is good instead of evil; love of self over love of God and the Bible and fear

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What is Romanticism?

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18th century movement, imagination, individuality, nature, and freedom of thought

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What is Transcendentalism?

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reaction to realism, divinity is in all nature an humanity

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What is Dark Romanticism (also known as Anti-Transcendentalism))

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Gothicism - Dark, emotional aspect

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2 Transcendentalist writers

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Thoreau, Emerson

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3 Dark Romantic writers

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Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville

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Difference between Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism

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Transcendentalism is over soul, one with nature and in Dark Romanticism the soul is evil, nature is evil

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Compare and contrast Dead Poet’s Society to the ideas of romanticism and Transcendentalism. Be familiar with the characters and what they represent.Include comparisons between characters and major authors and main ideas.

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Love nature, imagination and individualism, carpe diem - seize the day

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30
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American Romanticism is a journey ___ civilization and rational thought and _____ freedom of _____.

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(this makes no sense to Dr. L)
away from
toward
thought and emotion

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31
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What does “FIRE” stand for?

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Fantasy
Idealism/Imagination
Rejection of rules
Emotion

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Transcendentalism is the idea that in determining the ultimate reality of _____, the _____, the self, and other important matters one must go beyond everyday human _____ in the _____ world.

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nature
soul
experiences
over-soul

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Give the charasteristics of the American Romantic Hero

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strong

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What kind of relationship exists between humans and nature according to the Transcendentalists?

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We are all animals

35
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Dark romanticism is a branch of _____; the view of humanity and nature turned _____

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Romanticism

Evil

36
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

value individuality

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Transcendentalism

37
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Perfection IS attainable

A

Transcendentalism

38
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Perfection IS NOT attainable.

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Dark Romanticism

39
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Females are weak and suffer at the hands of the male villain.

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Dark Romanticism

40
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Optimism

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Transcendentalism

41
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Pessimism

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Dark Romanticism

42
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Acknowledge the presence of evil, sin, and pain

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Dark Romanticism

43
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Did NOT acknowledge the presence of evil, sin, and pain

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Transcendentalism

44
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Everything is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

A

Transcendentalism

45
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism? “Perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart . . . “

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Dark Romanticism

46
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

“The Black Cat”

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Dark Romanticism

47
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Desolate, remote, mysterious settings

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Dark Romanticism

48
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Individuals should reject the authority of Christianity and gain knowledge of God through nature.

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Transcendentalism

49
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Moby Dick

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Dark Romanticism

50
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

Individuals fail in making a change for the better

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Dark Romanticism

51
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Is this Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism?

The power of science is often questioned and has the ability to corrupt or destroy mankind

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Dark Romanticism

52
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Who does the Whiteman refer to in “O Captain, My Captain?”

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Abraham Lincoln

53
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What is the prize to be won at the end of “O Captain, My Captain?”

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The conclusion of the Civil War

54
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Who is the author of “Psalm of Life” and what is the meaning of the “footprints on the sands of time”?

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Walt Whitman; our lives and what we have written about our lives

55
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What is the meaning of the “shipwrecked brother” in A Psalm of Life?

A

someone who is going through similar trials and tribulations

56
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According to “A Psalm of Life”, what does everyone experience?

A

sorry & trouble

57
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What is the attitude toward death in “The Tide Rises and the Tide Falls”?

A

it is part of nature and comes to everyone

58
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What do the waves do to the footprints in these lines:

“The little waves, with the soft, white hands/Efface the footprints in the sand”

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they wipe out what we have done in our lives

59
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What is meant when the speaker says “nameless here forevermore” when describing Lenore in The Raven?

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he will no longer say her name because she is dead/ an angel

60
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What is alliteration?

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repeated consonant sounds

61
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What is allusion?

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a hint or reference to something else

62
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Where does the raven go at the end of the poem, The Raven?

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Nowhere. He is still on the bust over the doorway.

63
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What is the speaker’s state of mind at the beginning of the poem, The Raven?

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He is relaxed, drowsy, sitting by the fire, reading and missing his dead wife, Lenore.

64
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Where is the speaker in The Black Cat when he is telling the story?

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In jail, and he will be hanged the next day.

65
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How was the speaker when he was a child in The Black Cat?

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A good, obedient child who loved animals wand was kind to them.

66
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What feature did the new cat have that the old one didn’t in The Black Cat?

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a white marking on his chest

67
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What three ways does the narrator think of to dispose of his wife’s body in The Black Cat?

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  1. Chop her in to little pieces and burn them.
  2. Throw her in the well.
  3. bury her in the floor of the basement.
68
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What is one Dark Romantic characteristic NOT found in The Black Cat?

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science is evil

69
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What leads to the speaker’s downfall in The Black Cat?

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His overconfidence and banging on the wall.

70
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What is Franklin’s schedule/plan for gaining moral perfection?

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Work on each virtue, one a month and focus only on that one by keeping a tally mark.

71
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What is the Divine Oversoul? Who created it and what does it represent?

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God or the Universal Being
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It represents part of God in each man, intuition, a direct line of communication between God and man

72
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How did Romantics rebel against/differ from Rationalists?

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Emotion over logic of rationalism.
Nature is good instead of evil.
Love of self over love of god and the bible and fear.

73
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Who wrote Self Reliance?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

74
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According to Emerson, what is suicide in Self-Reliance?

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imitation is suicide

75
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What is society trying to make people do in Self-Reliance?

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Be like everyone else and conform

76
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What is the most prevalent characteristic of great people?

A

They are nonconformists and think for themselves.

77
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Who wrote “Civil Disobedience” and what kind of government would he prefer?

A

Henry David Thoreau

A government that doesn’t interfere with people’s lives.

78
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Dead Poet’s Society

What were the students told to do with the introduction of Understanding Poetry?

A

Rip it out and throw it away.

79
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Dead Poet’s Society

Where does the Society meet?

A

In a cave at night

80
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Dead Poet’s Society

What does Mr. Keating prefer to be called?

A

Captain

81
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Dead Poet’s Society

Finish the quote: “I sound my barbaric ___ over the rooftops of the world.”

A

yawp

82
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Dead Poet’s Society

Why does Neil commit suicide?

A

Because his father wanted him to be a doctor and he wouldn’t listen to his request to be an actor.

83
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Dead Poet’s Society

What pieces of literature were in the Dead Poet’s Society?

A 
Tennyson
Shakespeare
Oh Captain, My Captain (Walt Whitman)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)
The Road not Taken (Robert Frost)

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