ROMANTICISM/TRANSCENDENTALISM

Question 1

what category is the Values feeling and intuition over reason.

Answer 1

Romanticism

Question 2

what category is the Places faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.

Answer 2

Romanticism

Question 3

what category Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature.

Answer 3

Romanticism

Question 4

what category Contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development.

Answer 4

Romanticism

Question 5

what category Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication

Answer 5

Romanticism

Question 6

what category Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual.

Answer 6

Romanticism

Question 7

what category Looks backward to the wisdom of the past and distrusts progress.

Answer 7

Romanticism

Question 8

what category Finds beauty and truth in exotic locales, the supernatural realm, and in the inner world of the imagination

Answer 8

Romanticism

Question 9

what category Sees poetry as the highest expression of the imagination.

Answer 9

Romanticism

Question 10

what category Finds inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture.

Answer 10

Romanticism

Question 11

what category Looked backward to established European traditions

Answer 11

American Poetry - Fireside Poets

Question 12

what category had The most popular poets America ever produced

Answer 12

American Poetry - Fireside Poets

Question 13

what category was Memorized and recited for years

Answer 13

American Poetry - Fireside Poets

Question 14

what category had Comforting topics rather than challenging topics

Answer 14

American Poetry - Fireside Poets

Question 15

what category Could be “preachy” and didactic

Answer 15

American Poetry - Fireside Poets

Question 16

what category had Pleasing style; not innovative

Answer 16

American Poetry - Fireside Poets

Question 17

what category had “Cross of Snow” & “Bells”

Answer 17

American Poetry - Fireside Poets

Question 18

what category was Originated in Europe

Answer 18

Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

Question 19

what category had Wild, haunted landscapes

Answer 19

Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

Question 20

what category had Supernatural events

Answer 20

Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

Question 21

what category had Edgar Allan Poe

Answer 21

Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

Question 22

what category was exotic

Answer 22

Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

Question 23

what category was Contemplation of nature

Answer 23

Nature - Romantic Escapism

Question 24

what category had Lyric poems, which express thoughts and feelings

Answer 24

Nature - Romantic Escapism

Question 25

what category Commonplace object or event leads to deep insight(s)

Answer 25

Nature - Romantic Escapism

Question 26

what category was Like Puritans, more contemplating and inner life

Answer 26

Nature - Romantic Escapism

Question 27

where did a place of idealized opportunity, chance for social/ economic mobility occur

Answer 27

Cities

Question 28

where did now crowded and dirty areas occur

Answer 28

Cities

Question 29

where did rapid spread of disease occur

Answer 29

Cities

Question 30

where did crime and violence, gangs occur

Answer 30

Cities

Question 31

where did Industrial Revolution occur

Answer 31

Cities

Question 32

where did William Cullen Bryant’s idea for Central Park initiated occur

Answer 32

Cities

Question 33

whos Characteristics are young or possesses youthful qualities

Answer 33

American Romantic Hero

Question 34

whos Characteristics are
innocent and pure of purpose

Answer 34

American Romantic Hero

Question 34

whos Characteristics are a sense of honor based not on society’s rules but on some higher principle

Answer 34

American Romantic Hero

Question 35

whos Characteristics are a knowledge of people and of life based on deep, intuitive understanding, not on formal learning

Answer 35

American Romantic Hero

Question 36

whos Characteristics are Loves nature and avoids town life

Answer 36

American Romantic Hero

Question 37

whos Characteristics are Quests for some higher truth in the natural world

Answer 37

American Romantic Hero

Question 38

what was a Offshoot of Romanticism

Question 39

Transcend

Answer 39

to go beyond the limits of; exceed; be above and independent of the physical universe.

Question 40

what well-educated people, mostly New Englanders

Answer 40

Origin of Transcendentalism

Question 41

what stared the time for literary independence–deliberately different from anything in Europe – something uniquely American

Answer 41

Origin of Transcendentalism

Question 42

what was strongly influenced by Deism

Answer 42

Origin of Transcendentalism

Question 43

what Deists believe that God created the universe but remains apart from it and permits his creation to administer itself through natural Laws.

Answer 43

Origin of Transcendentalism

Question 44

what stresses the importance of ethical conduct

Answer 44

Origin of Transcendentalism

Question 45

“to transcend”

Answer 45

move from the rational to a spiritual realm

Question 46

whos Beliefs Intuition, not reason, is the highest human faculty

Answer 46

Transcendental Beliefs

Question 47

whos Beliefs are to Rejection of materialism

Answer 47

Transcendental Beliefs

Question 48

whos Beliefs are Simplicity is the path to spiritual greatness

Answer 48

Transcendental Beliefs

Question 49

whos Beliefs are Nature is a source of truth & inspiration

Answer 49

Transcendental Beliefs

Question 50

whos Beliefs are Non-conformity, individuality & self-reliance

Answer 50

Transcendental Beliefs

Question 50

whos Beliefs are God is everywhere – in Nature and Man

Answer 50

Transcendental Beliefs

Question 51

whos Beliefs are All objects are miniature versions of the universe

Answer 51

Transcendental Beliefs

Question 52

whos Beliefs are to Unlike the Puritans, who humans as inherently evil, transcendentalists saw humans and nature as possessing an innate goodness.

Answer 52

Transcendental Beliefs

Question 52

whos His father owned a pencil factory

Answer 52

Henry David Thoreau

Question 53

who and John set up a school in 1838 but it collapsed a few years later after John became ill

Answer 53

Henry David Thoreau

Question 53

who Over the years his famous work Walden has inspired many naturalists, environmentalists, and writers.

Answer 53

Henry David Thoreau

Question 54

whos attitudes and studies of nature were radical for the time period, but today many consider him the “father of environmentalism.”

Answer 54

Henry David Thoreau

Question 55

who wrote “Walden, or Life in the Woods”
“Civil Disobedience”

Answer 55

Henry David Thoreau

Question 56

who Went on to Harvard divinity school → Became a Unitarian minister

Answer 56

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 57

who 1829 married Ellen Tucker, who died a few years later of tuberculosis

Answer 57

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 58

whos wifes death caused religious doubt, which resulted in his resignation from the clergy

Answer 58

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 59

who In 1840s founded & co-edited the literary magazine The Dial, w/ Margaret Fuller

Answer 59

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 60

who was the official publication of Transcendentalists until 1844

Answer 60

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 61

who Published two volumes of essays in 1841 and 1844 including “Self-Reliance,” which is among his best-known works

Answer 61

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 62

what said “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide…”

Answer 62

“Self-Reliance”

Question 63

what said “For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.”

Answer 63

“Self-Reliance”

Question 64

what said “To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Answer 64

“Self-Reliance”

Question 65

what said “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

Answer 65

“Self-Reliance”

Question 66

what said “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Answer 66

“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

Question 67

what said “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.”

Answer 67

“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

Question 68

what said “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

Answer 68

“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

Question 69

what said “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

Answer 69

“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

Question 70

what said “Men have become the tools of their tools.”

Answer 70

“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

Question 71

what said essay urging passive, nonviolent resistance to governmental policies to which an individual is morally opposed

Answer 71

“Civil Disobedience”

Question 72

what was Written after Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.

Answer 72

“Civil Disobedience”

Question 73

what Influenced individuals such as Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 73

“Civil Disobedience”

Question 74

what was writen when The $1.50 tax revenues went to the government which was waging, according to Thoreau, an unjust war against Mexico that would expand slavery.

Answer 74

“Civil Disobedience”

Question 75

What is intuition?

Answer 75

gut feeling

Question 76

Define Romanticism:

Answer 76

a literary movement that is dramatic and entertaining emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. (self-reliance)

Question 77

3 subcategories of Romanticism:

Answer 77

Dark/Gothic, Fireside, Transcendentalism

Question 78

What century did Romanticism begin?

Answer 78

19th → 1800’s

Question 79

Define sublime:

Answer 79

of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe

Question 80

Where do the Romantics look for truth?

Answer 80

Nature

Question 81

Romantics value:

Answer 81

less-religious, nature, self-reliance, innocence in materialistics, native, simplicity, mindfulness, non-materialistic

Question 82

What ends Romanticism:

Answer 82

Civil War, 1861

Question 83

Rhythm of Prose mimics:

Answer 83

human speech

Question 84

How do you get Rhythm of Prose in your writing?

Answer 84

Vary sentence length → short sentences = emphasis

Question 85

Parlour Soldier:

Answer 85

not engaging with life “Battle of Fate” → “Back-Seat Driver”, “Armchair QB”

Question 86

city doll

Answer 86

fail, give up, complain

Question 87

sturdy lad

Answer 87

stable, well-respected, lands on his feet like a cat, brave & successful, faces failure & tries again. They have their life together and organized

Question 88

Why do we need to retain the Spirit of Infancy in adulthood?

Answer 88

To keep us young & shed our years, so we can admire nature and truly see it. The pile on of years takes away the enjoyment & awe. → stars: stars in the sky everyday, we don’t care.