American Literature (Miss Martinez) Final

Verses upon the Burning of Our House

Anne Bradstreet

Verses upon the Burning of Our House

Allusion

Contemplations

Anne Bradstreet

Contemplations

Theme: Glorifying God through creation

The Author of Her Book

Anne Bradstreet

The Author of her Book

Extended metaphor

The Author of her book

Looks at her poetry as a deformed child

The way to Wealth

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's #1 struggle?

Order

Self-Reliance

Ralph Emerson

Concord Hymn

Ralph Emerson

The Rhodora

Ralph Emerson

The Rhodora

Shows love for nature

The Arrow and the Song

Henry Longfellow

A Psalm of Life

Theme: A call to act/lead and not follow

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time"
(Work)

A Psalm of Life" - Metaphor

The Village Blacksmith

Henry Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha

Parallelism

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

Theme: Unending, hopeless, mourning

The Raven

Internal Rhyme

Raven represents =

Emotion

Bust represents =

Wisdom

Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe

Walden

Henry Thoreau

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.."
(Work)

Walden

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Mark Twain

A White Heron

Sarah Jewett

A White Heron

Intrusive 3rd Person

A White Heron

Romantic descriptions of nature

A Village Singer

Mary Freeman

A village Singer

Fire imagery

The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion

Bret Harte

The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion

Theme: Power of the published word

Under the Lion's Paw

Hamlin Garland

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

The Open Boat

Stephen Crane

The Open Boat

Cosmic chill

The Open Boat

Determinism

The wind slowly died

Cosmic Chill

To Build a Fire

Jack London

We Wear the Mask

Paul Dunbar

When all is done

Paul Dunbar

Hymn

Paul Dunbar

Richard Cory

Edwin Robinson

Invented the fictional town "Tilbury Town

Edwin Robinson

Miniver Cheevy

Edwin Robinson

The Death of a Hired Man

Robert Frost

The Taxi

Amy Lowell

I call out for you against the jutted starts and shout into the ridges of the wing."
(Work)

The Taxi

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Masters

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

T.S. Eliot

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo"
(Work)

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
(Work)

Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Poetry

Marianne Moore

Spring and All

F. Fitzgerald

Neighbour Rosicky

Willa Cather

Old Man at the Bridge

Ernest Hemingway

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber

The Enemy

Pearl S. Buck

Oxi Mooron

Redundant statement