Romantic Review

Review for Test on Romanticism

1 – Be able to discuss with examples how Emerson (Nature and Self-Reliance)  and Thoreau (Walden and Civil Disobedience fit the ideas of Transcendentalism.  You will need to be able to pick out  a theme for each essay and use specific examples.

2 – Discuss the meaning of the “A Psalm of Life”, “The Tide Falls”, “The Chambered Nautilus” and “Old Ironsides”.  Be able to analysis rhyme scheme, stanza structure, and metaphor in each poem.  Also apply the question: What gives life purpose to the poems.

3 – List the elements of American Gothic literature and give examples of these elements in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and The Scarlet Letter.

4 – Be able to discuss the following questions as connected to the literature of the Romantic Period:

“Is the price of progress ever too high?”

“Is it patriotic to protest one’s government?”

“Does everyone have a dark side?”

“Where do people look for the truth?”