Era 1: Poets and types of traits examples

Holmes and Lowel era

Holmes and Lowel era

Fireside and Romantic

Poe era

Gothic and Anti- Transentlist

Hawthorne era

Dark Romantic and Anti-Transentist

Dickinson and Whitman era

Renaissance but inspired by Transcendental traits

Emerson and Thoreau era

Transcendentalism/Renaissance

Dickinsons Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church.

(Example of Transcendental Trait Mysticism and Self Reliance)

Whitman In Astronomer, he wants to express that the highly educated science man does not compare to the beauty of nature and thinking for himself.

(Example of Romantic Trait Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication)

Whitman in Spider, he (speaker) is comparing the hard work of our body and soul to that of a spider conducting a web.

I(Example of Romantic Trait Attraction to the strange)

In the “a dream within a dream” Poe expresses dark imagery.

(example of Gothic trait the melancholy ideas of a person with lost dreams)

Dark Romanticism

Dark view on nature and man and his systems. Weighed down by humanity's(original sin). Unlike the romantics era’s belief in the triumphant individual hero, protagonists often fail and or are tormented.

Gothic

Mysterious creepy setting, violent actions, a women is usually repressed in some way, melancholic states of the human mind, showcase characters making decisions based on emotions rather than logic(example-oval portrait)

Transcendentalism

a branch of romanticism; A philosophical belief based on idealism of the senses and logic and receive higher truths about life and greater knowledge about the universe. Matters of ultimate reality (like God, self, universe) go beyond (“transcend”) human experience.

Romanticism

New emphasis on humanism. The time for America to develop its own unique literary voice. It was optimistic, progressive, and liberal. It involved pantheism, and it held the view that humans are naturally good. The city represents a place of corruption, moral decay, and temptation. “Consecrate the common”. Imagination, spontiunity, individual feelings, and wild nature > reason, logic, planning, and cultivation.