Romanticism Review

Check off each stylistic element that was unique to Emily Dickinson.

• Elliptical Phrasing

• Unorthodox Capitalization

• Slant Rhyme

• Paradox

• Death

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Check off each of the following that were stylistic elements unique to Walt Whitman.

• catalogues

• free verse

• nature

• anaphora/parallelism

• onomatopoeia

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Check all historical events that influenced the Romantic movement.

• Westward Expansion

• Abolitionist Movement

• World War I

• The War of 1812

• The Industrial Revolution

Check all of the qualities that Romantics looked for in a Romantic Hero.

• Older, educated

• Intuitive

• Connected to nature

• Shuns civilization

• Sophisticated

Read the following poem and then tell me who most likely wrote it.

There is that in me--I do not know what it is--but I know it is in me.

Wrench'd and sweaty--calm and cool then my body becomes,

I sleep--I sleep long

I do not know it--it is without name--it is a word unsaid,

It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.

Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,

To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me

Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters?

It is not chaos or death--it is form, union, plan--it is eternal life--it is Happiness.

• Emily Dickinson

• Walt Whitman

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What stylistic elements unique to Walt Whitman are in the poem below?

There is that in me--I do not know what it is--but I know it is in me.

Wrench'd and sweaty--calm and cool then my body becomes,

I sleep--I sleep long

I do not know it--it is without name--it is a word unsaid,

It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.

Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,

To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me

Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters?

It is not chaos or death--it is form, union, plan--it is eternal life--it is Happiness.

• Catalogue

• Free Verse

• Anaphora

• Long Lines

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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Which poet most likely wrote the following poem?

This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me--

The simple News that Nature told--

With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed

To Hands I cannot see--

For love of Her--Sweet--countrymen--

Judge tenderly--of Me

• Emily Dickinson

• Walt Whitman

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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What stylistic elements unique to Emily Dickinson are present in the poem below?

This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me--

The simple News that Nature told--

With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed

To Hands I cannot see--

For love of Her--Sweet--countrymen--

Judge tenderly--of Me

• Unorthodox Capitalization

• Elliptical Phrasing

• Slant Rhyme

• Paradox

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Which of the following pairs is the example of slant rhyme in the following poem?

This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me--

The simple News that Nature told--

With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed

To Hands I cannot see--

For love of Her--Sweet--countrymen--

Judge tenderly--of Me

• World/told

• committed/countrymen

• see/Me

• Me/Majesty

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Where is there a paradox in the poem below?

This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me--

The simple News that Nature told--

With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed

To Hands I cannot see--

For love of Her--Sweet--countrymen--

Judge tenderly--of Me

• The idea of a letter written to a world that didn't write to the speaker

• The idea of tender majesty

• The idea of committing a message to hands that can't be seen

• The idea of sweet countrymen

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