English: Romanticism, Fireside Poets, Gothic

1. Romanticism values ________________ and _________________ over _______________  and  _______________.

imagination and intuition over reason and fact  

2. The three major themes of Romanticism are:

1. Quest of an individual

2. nature

3. magic/supernatural

3. How did the Fireside Poets get their name? 

their families would gather around the fireplace to read aloud together

4. List the four Fireside Poets we read and the poems of theirs that we read.  Three poets will have one poem, one poet will have four. 

1. William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides

3. James Russell Lowell: The First Snowfall

4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Midnight Rides of Paul Revere, A Psalm of Life, The Song of Hiawatha, The Tide Rises the Tide Falls

5. Who is our Gothic Poet? 

Edger Allen Poe

6. What are the four markers of Gothic style? 

1. bleak and remote setting

2. macabre or violent incidents (involving death)

3. physical or psychological torment

4. supernatural

7. What is “single effect”?

• an effect on a reader having to do with depression, terror, and horror

• the idea that every element of a literary work should contribute to a single emotional or psychological effect on the reader