midterm 1 american writers

My Contraband

Louisa May Alcott

The Man Without A Country

Edward Everett Hale

John Brown

Anonymous Folk song

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Julia Ward Howe

The Picket-Guard

Ethelinda Eliot Beers

The Battle Autumn of 1862

John Greenleaf Whitter

The Southern Refugee

George Horton

Lincoln Is Dead

George Horton

Weep

George Horton

Hearing the Battle--July 21

1861

Army of Occupation

Sarah Piatt

Words for the Hours

Frances Harper

Song of Myself

Walt Whitman

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Walt Whitman

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

Walt Whitman

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

Walt Whitman

poem memorializing Abraham Lincoln

O Captain! My Captain!

Walt Whitman

The Wound-Dresser

Walt Whitman

Facing West from California's Shores

Walt Whitman

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado

Walt Whitman

I Sing the Body Electric

Walt Whitman

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

Walt Whitman

Sometimes With One I Love

Walt Whitman

City of Orgies

Walt Whitman

To a Stranger

Walt Whitman

Success is counted sweetest

Emily Dickinson

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

Emily Dickinson

"'Faith' is a fine invention"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"I taste a liquor never brewed--"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"I'm 'wife'--I've finished that--"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"Wild nights! Wild nights!"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"There's a certain Slant of light"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"I felt a Funeral

in my Brain"Links to an external site.

I'm ceded--I've stopped being Their's"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"A Bird

came down the walk"Links to an external site.

"After great pain

a formal feeling comes--"Links to an external site.

"The Soul selects her own Society--"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"I died for Beauty--but was scarce"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"He fumbles at your Soul"Links to an external site. and "He fumbles at your spirit"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"Because I could not stop for Death"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"When I was small

a Woman died"

"This is my letter to the World"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"I heard a Fly buzz--when I died"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"The Brain--is wider than the Sky"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"Much Madness is divinest Sense"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"I started Early--Took my Dog"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"My Portion is Defeat--today"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"I cannot live with You--"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"A narrow Fellow in the Grass"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"My Triumph lasted till the Drums"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun"Links to an external site.

Emily Dickinson

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"

Emily Dickinson

"Apparently with no surprise"

Emily Dickinson

"My life closed twice before it's close

"

Emily Dickinson

"One Sister have I in our house"

Emily Dickinson

"Her breast is fit for pearls"

Emily Dickinson

"Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night

Emily Dickinson

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

"Lift Every Voice and Sing"Links to an external site.

James Weldon Johnson

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

contraband

def: people vs. things: enslaved people were legally things

incantatory repetition

def: chanting as part of a ritual in poems ex: Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

effusing

def: the act of flowing out (effusing is a "form of empathetic thinking" about the world around us ) ex: Whitman's use of "i." is it really him? or a narrator? canto 33

queer

def: Queer in the sense of being concernedwith non-normative sexual attractionand experience. But also queer in the sense of strange

fourteener

def: four-line stanzas that alternate 8-syllableiambic lines

iambic

def: two syllabus

enjambment

def: The continuation of a sentence without pause (punctuation) beyond the end of a line ex: emily dickinson

compression

def: meaning and image are expressed with precision and economy. ex: emily dickinson

slant rhyme

def: rhyming with words that share similar sounds

chromaticism

def:Dickinson's need in such poems tosound

negative capability*

def: capable of being in uncertainties

Reconstruction: 1865-1877

def: Process of: Readmitting Southern states to the Union. Transitioning enslaved people tocitizenship and free labor. Physical and economic rebuilding of theSouth.

vernacular/AAVE

def: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region ex: Jim in Huckleberry Finn

Bildungsroman

def: a novel ofeducation or coming of age ex: Huckleberry Finn comes of age throughout the novel. He matures through his relationship with Jim

picaresque

def: an episodic story of the adventures of a rough or dishonest hero ex: Huck's journey down the Mississippi River is full of random encounters with a range of characters (the duke and the king

Southern Gothic

def: presence of irrational

grotesque characters

dark humor

and an overall angst-ridden sense of alienation ex: Huckleberry Finn is set in the south

ideology

def: deology representsthe imaginary relationship ofindividuals to their real conditions ofexistence ex:

fantasy

def: ex: Huck's fantasy of escape and self-sufficiency byfaking his own death

spectrality

def: the living present is scarcely as self-sufficient as it claims to be

that wewould do well not to count on itsdensity and solidity

which might underexceptional circumstances betray us. ex: du bois He is looking behind (or through?) the solidity of everyday experience

apocalypse

def: complete and final destruction of the world ex: e apocalypticism isn't about anarrative (that ends in the Promised Land or indestruction)

**He was but a man

--a poor

the world offered him no honors

no success

I could not help a glance around

which showed me what a little shrinehe had made of the box he was lyingin. The stars and stripes were tricedup above and around a picture ofWashington

heard a Fly buzz - when I died -The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air -Between the Heaves of Storm

text: Emily Dickinson I heard a Fly Buzz context: the speaker describes the quiet moments leading up to their death

went up to my room with a piece of candle

and put it on the table. Then I set down in a chair by the window andtried to think of something cheerful

and I heard an owl

away off

and the wind wastrying to whisper something to me

and I couldn't make out what it was

The light begun to come before we got to the foot of the island. Then we looked in at the window. We could make out abed

and a table

naked

too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come in

I didn't want to see him.

text: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain context: Huck and Jim discover a dead man in a run-down

"Everything's all right now except tools

and that's easy fixed.""Tools?" I says."Yes.""Tools for what?""Why

to dig with. We ain't a-going to gnaw him out

After the Egyptian and Indian

the Greek andRoman