Fireside Poets

Flashcards about the Fireside Poets.

Fireside Poets

Group of poets often read as family entertainment and in school classrooms, similar to popular music today.

Fireside Poets Tone

Nature, self-exploration, and optimistic viewpoints.

Fireside Poets

Group of poets often read as family entertainment and in school classrooms, similar to popular music today.

Fireside Poets Tone

Nature, self-exploration, and optimistic viewpoints.

Fireside Poets Significance

Represented a literary coming of age for a young country trying to cement its identity.

Fireside Poets Social Issues

Poetry focused on important social issues including the abolition of slavery.

Fireside Poets Criticism

Their optimism has been criticized as being overly sentimental and it often does not deeply investigate the darker side of the human condition

Fireside Poets Names

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most popular American poet and remained the most popular for decades.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Theme

Focused on the theme of the individual

A Psalm of Life

Written after the death of his first wife and the child she was bearing.

A Psalm of Life Tone

Inspirational

A Psalm of Life Mood

Motivating

A Psalm of Life Focus

Directs individuals to overcome misfortunes from the past and live productively in the present.