ENGLISH 11 ROMANTICISM TEST
TEN CHARACTERISTICS OF
ROMANTICISM
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Values feeling and intuition over reason
Places faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination
Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature
Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication
Champions individual’s freedom and the worth of the individual
Reflects on nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development
Looks backward to the wisdom of the past and distrusts progress
Finds beauty in truth and the exotic locale, the supernatural realm, and
the inner world of the imagination
9. Sees poetry as the highest expression of the imagination
10. Finds inspiration in myth, legend, and folklore
ROMANTICISM
School of thought that values intuition
and feeling over reason
TRANSCENDENTALISM
• A literary and philosophical movement asserting the existence of ideal
spiritual reality with science and intuition.
• To find truth one must go beyond the everyday human experience in the
physical world
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
• How did Bryant use his influence as an influential journalist to defend
human rights and personal freedoms?
• What did his work help establish?
• “Thanatopsis” reveals what about Bryant and his views on death?
• How does this exemplify the tenants of Romanticism?
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Where did he attend college?
What was his first occupation?
Why did he quit?
How was he influenced by European writers?
What was his philosophy?
“NATURE”
• What effect does Emerson believe nature has on all people regardless of
age?
• Emerson background info and philosophical beliefs
• How does he feel the divine effects a person’s circumstances?
THOREAU
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Marching to a different drummer
How does his lifestyle reflect his philosophy?
Who was his mentor?
“Walden” seminal work
Modern examples of Transcendental philosophy
RATIONALISM
Believes actions should be based on
reason rather than emotional response.
KEY POINTS FROM THE TEXTBOOK
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON
PAGE 219-221
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American English
Triumph of the colloquial
The “Barbaric Yawp”
American Romantic poets vs. American Romantic novelists
Literary character types that emerged during this time period
Bright vs. Dark Romantics
Self-reliance
SATIRE
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Its purpose
“The Devil and Tom Walker”
Horatian
Juvenalian
Harshest form of satire
Modern day example of satire
VOCABULARY
• Unit 7