Final Exam Author Flashcards
(21 cards)
Description of how beautiful America is and to gaze until you cry
To An American Painter Departing from Europe by William Cullen Byant
A poem on not to fear death as a dark entity but rather as a more peaceful occurance
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
A story of a man who goes drinking in the mountains and time travels
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
A story of a man who is haunted by a headless horseman
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Description of how a man is apart of nature and that he is a vegitable and a floating eyeball
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is possible to be in nature but still be apart of society, that people should be saunters
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
An autobiography on how her father started a group out in the wilderness
Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott
A poem on how dreaming is the only one to see dead loved ones and nightmares are relaxing
Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe
A short story revolving around a mysterious black cat and describes one mans guilt and paranoia
The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe
A story of a young Puritan who goes into the woods and gets himself involved in witchcraft leading to his distrust of everyone he knows
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The story of a young sailor who goes forth to try to catch a whale
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Narrative of a young slave who fights for his freedom from Mr. Cubby
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass
Story of a young slave girl attempting to evade her pursuer Mr. Flint
Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The story of a young mother attempting to protect her children from being sold
Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The story of a young girl who is abandoned by her mother and into a life of slavery
Our Nig by Harriet Wilson
Personifies nature as a lover, woman imaging a man bathing, and describes how the body and the soul are connected like lovers
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
i. His brother was hurt in the war and he went to go and help him in Washington, he also had an adoration for Abraham Lincoln.
Drumtaps by Walt Whitman
i. Uses repetition to capture the weariness of soldiers and a sense of marching, the rhythm even though it doesn’t rhyme captures the scene
ii. There is a stop as he is at a field hospital in a church, he describes the bloody and sad scene, realistic detail and not shying away from the bloodiness of the war
A March in the Ranks Hard Pressed and the Roads Unknown by Walt Whitman
i. He describes three bodies that he sees. One that is old, one that is young, and one that is in the prime of his life. Indication that the world is taking men of all ages. He is comparing this third man to Christ which was controversial.
ii. Brings once again the heaviness and the weight of death
A Site in Camp in the Day Break Gray and Grim by Walt Whitman
i. Describes the horror of war killing someone who is just like you, just as “divine”
ii. The world will be healed, death and night, are washer women wash again the soiled world
iii. The notion of reconciliation between two enemies as he kisses the face of the enemy
Reconciliation by Walt Whitman
i. Seems very transcedental in its concepts, reaction against age of reason
There is too much of a study on stars, and that you should just go out and look at them as if they were rare
When I heard the Learned Astronomer by Walt Whitman
