Midterm ID

Indigenous Encounter

John Smith - Him vs the Indians, portrays himself as the hero

Handsome - Very Mythical, fiction, told from the perspective of american indians, the one with the devil

Sherman Alexie

Imperalist nostalgia, appropriation

Anne Bradstreet (poet, verse, forms)

religious journey (puritan), women's suffrage, showcases her struggles in a predominantly male society, emphasizing themes of faith and resilience. writes about loss of property and loss of her kids

Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin (prose essays)

Enlightenment and independence, sounds the most normal there is a lot of reason, revolutioary arguments

Ralph Waldo Emerson (essays) (prose)

very straight forward, trandeslisst, cultural and perosnal indpendence, advocating for self-reliance and the importance of individualism in the quest for freedom.

Emily Dickinson

Dashes, the first line is always the title; nature, religion, private female poet

Walt Whittman (poet)

Soul and body, lenghty, expansion, inclusive, repetiion (catalogue), uses "I” alot Very long poems, very inclusive, very sexual

Herman Melvillle (novelist)

lenghty style, depiction of Bartleby as the passive resistance