--skimming my new english textbook understanding literature robert frosts poem mending wall was seen by me
class activities:
--read pages 305 to 309 in text book
--complete the following handout (in notebook):
3 Characteristics of American Romanticism
1.
Explored the glories of the individual spirit
2.
Explored the beauties of nature
3.
Explored the possibilities of the imagination
Directions: read each of the 3 short passages written by
various American Romantics. Identify
which of the 3 American Romanticism characteristics the passage relates to and
provide a brief explanation based on the Theme.
Be sure to write in complete sentences.
from Self-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in
every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;
that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as
his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of
nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of
ground which is given to him to till…
Trust thyself:
every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of
your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the
genius of their age, betraying their perception that God was seated at their
heart, working through their hands, controlling in all their being….
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from Walden
by henry David Thoreau
When I first took
up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days
there, which, by accident, was on Independence day, or the fourth of July,
1845, my house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defense against
the rain, without plastering or chimney, the walls being of rough
weather-stained boards, with wide chinks, which made it cool at night. The upright white hewn studs and freshly
planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the
morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by
noon some sweet gum would exude from them….
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from “Stanzas on Freedom”
by James Russell Lowell
Men! Whose boast it is that ye
Come of fathers brave and free,
If there breathe on earth a slave,
Are ye truly free and brave?
If ye do not feel the chain,
When it works a brother’s pain,
Are ye not base slaves indeed,
Slaves unworthy to be freed?
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