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American Romanticism
- Literary Works:
- Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee, The Raven,
The Fall of the House of Usher,
The Black Cat,
- James Russell Lowell:
She Came and Went
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The Cross of Snow
- Washington Irving:
The Devil and Tom
Walker
- William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis
- Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee, The Raven,
The Fall of the House of Usher,
The Black Cat,
- Literary Devices
- plot, setting, exposition, rising action,
climax, falling action, resolution,
imagery, metaphor, simile, alliteration,
onomatopoeia, personification,
hyperbole, internal rhyme, external
rhyme, allusion, theme
- plot, setting, exposition, rising action,
climax, falling action, resolution,
imagery, metaphor, simile, alliteration,
onomatopoeia, personification,
hyperbole, internal rhyme, external
rhyme, allusion, theme
- Characteristics of traditional American Romantic Writing
- full of emotion, promotes love of nature
and distrust of city life, creative, focuses on -
idealism/natural goodness of man and the
importance of self/individual freedom,
reaction against the beliefs of the
Rationalism - values feelings over reason,
subjects included - love, death, humanity,
patriotism (Fireside Poets popular), poetry
valued as the highest form of the
imagination
- The Romantic Hero
- young (or at least acts young), innocent
and pure, sense of honor higher than
society’s honor, has knowledge of people
and life based on a deep understanding
rather than education, loves nature, quests
for a higher truth
- young (or at least acts young), innocent
and pure, sense of honor higher than
society’s honor, has knowledge of people
and life based on a deep understanding
rather than education, loves nature, quests
for a higher truth
- full of emotion, promotes love of nature
and distrust of city life, creative, focuses on -
idealism/natural goodness of man and the
importance of self/individual freedom,
reaction against the beliefs of the
Rationalism - values feelings over reason,
subjects included - love, death, humanity,
patriotism (Fireside Poets popular), poetry
valued as the highest form of the
imagination
- Dark Romanticism
- subgenre of American Romanticism, less optimistic
about mankind/God/nature, features the
bizarre/supernatural/macabre/mysterious/terrifying,
themes often focus on the shortcomings/flaws of
mankind
- subgenre of American Romanticism, less optimistic
about mankind/God/nature, features the
bizarre/supernatural/macabre/mysterious/terrifying,
themes often focus on the shortcomings/flaws of
mankind
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