Dr. Luke Mitchell, American Literary Cultures Midterm

Wigglesworth

The Day of Doom

Wheatley Peters

On Being Brought From Africa to America

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

Margret Fuller

Niagara Falls

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Birthmark

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself

Emily Dickinson

There's a Certain Slant of Light; Because I Could not Stop for Death; I Like the Look of Agony

Ernest Hemmingway

Hills Like White Elephants

T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Langston Hughes

I, Too; Democracy

Zora Neale Hurston

Sweat

Blues Women

Specular Literacy - About holding up a mirror and expressing who you truly are, completely unapologetically

William Faulkner

Barn Burning

"May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train."

On Being Brought From Africa to America

"In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo."

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Is nothing sacred?

Niagara Falls

Fearful of imperfection

The Birthmark

"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible"

Nature

Grandmother sent away to die; Mrs. Auld becomes evil over time because of a gain of irresponsible power

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself"

Song of Myself

"The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn"

Leaves of Grass

"Winter Afternoons - That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes -"

There's a Certain Slant of Light

"We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess - in the Ring -"

Because I Could not Stop for Death

"Because I know it's true -Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate a Throe"

I Like the Look of Agony

"'Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?'"

Hills Like White Elephants

"Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—"

I, Too

"I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land."

Democracy

Justice Vs. Family Loyalty

Barn Burning