1. After reviewing the Romanticism resource page‚ list three characteristics of Romanticism. Also‚ identify three authors of the Romantic period. Profound love of nature‚ focus on the self and the individual‚ and fascination with the supernatural. Three authors of this period are William Cullen Bryant‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ and Washington Irving. 2. Using the Transcendentalism resource page‚ list three characteristics of Transcendentalism. • Reverence for nature • Celebrated individualism • Intuition
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Family Tree Exercise My grandparents from my mother’s side of the family were both born in China and resided in a small town their entire life. My grandmother—Po Po‚ goes by the name of Ling Tan; and my grandfather—Gung Gung‚ is called Chau Yi Chen. Both of them lived in the same village and were tied together through arrange marriage which is a very popular tradition in China. Due to China’s one child policy‚ my grandfather grew up with no siblings because it was illegal to give birth to more
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of the few authors who wrote gothic literature stories. American Romanticism was used to show the reactions to the restrictions of the puritans during the 1800’s. The purpose of Gothic literature was and still is to entertain‚ to present a moral‚ and to inspire improvement of oneself through imagination. Desolate location‚ ghost or spirit‚ use of symbols‚ an attempt to escape for a moment are some characteristics that dark romanticism uses. Of course not all gothic stories have to have every single
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Man has been closely related with the nature since the down of civilization. Nature is helpful for all human beings. Nature abounds with trees. Trees are one of the best gifts of nature. As the civilization proceeds towards development‚ valuable nature assets are also getting damaged day by day. So it is the ease with trees. Now the ecological balance is distributed and the life becomes difficult. Our life and existence on earth greatly depends on trees. So we should plant trees through an existence
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Analysis of “Apple Tree” (extract) John Galsworthy is an English writer of XIX-XX centuries famous for The Forsyte Saga and he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1932. It is important to know‚ that he started his literary career with long short stories‚ and The Apple Tree‚ which was published in 1917‚ is one of the most popular by Galsworthy. This extract does not say anything in particular about the whole story‚ but we can see very vividly the beginning of certain kind of events. Basically
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Germans introduced the use chemical gasses as an weapon in war. Poison gas was the most feared out of all technology weapons in WW1. The gasses could burn skin‚ blind‚ or destroy your lungs if you happen to breathed in. Back then they had crude face masks to protect people in war from the poisonous gas floating in the air. Poison gas was easier during WW1 all they had to do was throw the poisonous gas bomb. “ A poison gas attack meant soldiers having to put on crude gas masks and
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The coconut tree as a “tree of life” is characteristically a food supplier as this tree provides fruit and is well-known to be devoid of any anti-nutrient factors and is known as a whole food with 5‚000 years of recorded use in food preparation with health benefits.The fruit is edible at any stage of maturity. It provides not only a solid food but a large volume of very safe and healthy drinking water-based juice. The fruit of the coconut palm is the main source of many food products such as coconut
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Romanticism was an era of arts‚ literature‚ music and an intelligent crusade that was created in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was considered by its importance on emotion and individuality as well as the glorification of all the past and nature‚ desiring the medieval rather than the classical. Topic sentence: Enthusiasm for the natural man and adolescence Romantics had confidence in the innate decency of
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Oppaper Romanticism in American Literature‚ Getting to Know Thoreau & Poe Within this paper will be an explanation of the ideals of Romantic writers in Early American Literature. We will also look at some aspects of Romanticism that were uniquely understood by the writers and artists in the United States. There will be a brief discussion of “bright” and “dark” Romantic writing and it is there that we will look at the lives‚ and one poem each‚ of Henry David Thoreau‚ a “bright” romantic writer
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ROMANTICISM Sample introduction 1 The Romantic period represented the cataclysmic influence of the epochal events happening in France which sharpened the historical sense in a way that no other event had ever done. Never before had a movement in literature and the arts as a whole actively engaged with the political‚ social‚ economic and intellectual climate as during this period. Romanticism propelled experimentation in the artistic expression and thought and as the Romantics lived in an age
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