PPT-Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman

American Transcendentalists 18031882 from Boston MA Essayist Lecturer Poet Nicknamed The Concord Sage Led the TRANSCENDENTAL movement Was a champion of INDIVIDUALITY and spread his religious and social beliefs via his writing and lectures. Bell Work. Create a list of famous nonconformists. How did the individuals you listed depart from the norms of their time? Were they punished for their actions? Were they able to win others to their point of view?. Self-Reliance . to . Civil Disobedience: . Guerilla Transcendentalist Projects. Aerie Treska. English Department. Roland Park Country School. Baltimore, MD . First, some context….. AP English 11. American Literature focus. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”. Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. . Crafting the American Ideal . and. Thesis . In his poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Walt Whitman expresses his idealistic view of American patriotism and spirit through his symbolism of the lilac, star, and bird, and his celebration of Abraham Lincoln and the soldiers of the Civil War. . Celebration of primeval American landscape. America as a garden-set aside by God. Unspoiled nature and expressions of the Divine. Lack of narrative detail. Limitless potential of unspoiled landscape. An exploration of the pond in Concord, MA where the Transcendentalist author lived and recorded his thoughts.. The . Hollowell. Farm. The . Hollowell. Farm. Thoreau uses the . Hollowell. Farm to showcase his belief that purchasing property actually “burns” the new owner. He suggests that one should liberate oneself from the desire to own something because it is better to leave . Differentiate between . American Romanticism . and . American Dark Romanticism . by defining both in one sentence. . Romantics vs. Dark Romantics. American Romantic . authors celebrated and portrayed nature and individual reflection as a rejuvenating departure from the evils of overcrowded urban life.. Rigdon. “Nature” Emerson. “Self-Reliance” Emerson and . Walden Thoreau . Walden. Thoreau. “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau. Walt Whitman. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 20. 20. 20. 20. 20. 30. 30. 30. 30. Poe, Irvin, Hawthorn, Emerson, . Thoreau. , Whitman, etc... Romanticism. A literary movement originally “invented” by European writers that was then adopted and popularized by American writers in the early 1800s. SchoolRoom. Poets, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Optimists & Pessimists. Romanticism . Individualism. Nature. Imagination. Distant. SchoolRoom. poets. -Taught in a school. -Memorized. -Cultural provincialism [Universality]. Self Reflections. Pick up the sheet provided and prepare to move outside for class.. Using the questions provided, generate responses in your ISN.. After 10-20 minutes, share your ideas with a group of at least 2 peers.. Henry David Thoreau. DO NOW:. List . 3 things. in your life that you do ‘. deliberately. ’.. Henry David Thoreau. 1817-1862. Schoolteacher, essayist, poet. Most famous for . Walden . (pg 204). . and try to figure out what the term “transcendentalism” might mean.. With a partner, make . a . list on your board: . What . does a person have to . believe. in order to be a transcendentalist? . Academic Vocabulary Genre conventions The essential features and format that characterize a specific genre Literary Terms Connotation feelings or ideas associated with a word Epigraph A life of principle. A. n American author, essayist, poet, Transcendentalist and naturalist. He is best known for his book . Walden. , a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, .