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What are the Fireside Poets First group of American poets to rival British poets in popularity in either country Notable for their scholarship and the resilience of their lines and themes Preferred conventional forms over experimentation ID: 696899
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The Fireside Poets
America’s First Literary [Rock]StarsSlide2
What are the Fireside Poets
First group of American poets to rival British poets in popularity in either country.
Notable for their scholarship and the resilience of their lines and themes.
Preferred conventional forms over experimentation.
Often used American legends and scenes of American life as their subject matterSlide3
Who were the Fireside Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Cullen Bryant
James Russell Lowell
Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Greenleaf WhittierSlide4
Where did they get the name?
Also called Schoolroom or Household Poets
Adherence
to
poetic
conventions
made poems easy to memorize or recite in school and also at
home by the fireside for entertainment
Standard forms
Regular meter
Rhymed stanzasSlide5
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807-1882
Composed
“Song of Hiawatha”
“Paul Revere’s Ride”
“Psalm of Life”
“The Day is Done”Translated Dante’s Inferno
form Italian into EnglishSlide6
William Cullen Bryant
1794-1878Composed:
“To a Waterfowl”
“Thanatopsis”
One of the founders of the Republican party and supporter of LincolnSlide7
James Russell Lowell
1819-1891Composed
“The First Snowfall”
“The Present Crisis”
Active in anti-slavery causesSlide8
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894
Medical Doctor– invented the term “anesthesia.”
Composed:
“Old Ironsides”
Saved the USS Constitution from the scrapyard
Father of Supreme Court Justice Olver Wendell Holmes,
JrSlide9
John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892Composed:
Snowbound
“Maud Muller”
“Barefoot Boy”
Active in anti-slavery movementSlide10
Lasting Impact
Longfellow remained the most popular American poet for decades
.
Longfellow
remains the only American poet to be immortalized by a bust in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner
They took on causes in their poetry, such as the abolition of slavery, which brought the issues to the forefront in a palatable way.
Through their scholarship and editorial efforts, they paved the way for later Romantic writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.Slide11
TPCASTT Project
Divide into groups
Pick a poem
Read a poem aloud
as a group
Complete
T.P.C.A.S.T.T.
T
Title
P
Paraphrase
C
Connotation
A
Attitude
S
Shift
T
Title
T
ThemeSlide12
Let’s try an example!Slide13
2nd
Period
Group 1
Brendan, Lucas, Olivia,
Richon
Group 2
Sadie, Dashad, Myles
Group 3
Ashleigh, Troy, DeAndre
Group 4
Uri, Trevor,
D’marcus
, Sedric
Group
5
Kameron, Brent,
Makaylah
Group
6
Micah, Devin, Desmond
Group
7
Danielle, Lauren,
Ladonta
Group
8
Erin, Sakeem, Ashley,
Teiarra