Am Lit Part 5

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some themes of Ben Franklin:

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-industry, frugality, temperance
-merit over privilege
focus your life on SELF!
-not God or others;
Manifest Destiny;
pursuit of happiness thru positve secular values

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Writing Method of Ben Franklin:

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clarity, smoothness, brevity
--a classic prose style mostly free
--mostly free of classical allusions (not Greek to him!)

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Ben Franklin's writing:
best known for 2 major works

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"The Autobiography"
and
"Poor Richard's
Almanac" (a series...)

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William Bartram's one book:

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"Travels through N. & S. Carolina, GA, E & W Florida"

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Best words to describe "Travels thru...N S Carolina, GA, E&W Fla"

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latinate prose
BUT vivid scens
***Travel book***

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What book/author is known for Excellent Botanical Drawings... (altho not incl in today's copies)

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Wm Bartram---botanical drawings

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How did Bartram describe experiences with Native Americans?

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~ a little bit of a tall tale or perhaps exag. bit of young Indian girls in the strawberry field; alligator ~ but not all exag.

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how well read/ influential was Bartram's "travels thru..."

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reprinted all over Europe-! influenced Coleridge, Wordsworth, Chateaubriand

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Phyllis Wheatley is regarded as

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first important black writer in America

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brief bio of Phyllis Wheatley

part 1

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came to America as a slave at 7 yrs old, bought by wealthy merchant fo a companion to his wife, highly educated...

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brief bio of Phyllis Wheatley

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at age 19--literary sensation w/
"Poems on Various Subjects";
age 24 on , parents died, no $,Wheatley died in poverty

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who was a major influence in Phyllis Wheatley writing:

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Milton. at other times tho was influenced by the 'heroic couplets' of Pope;

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how to describe how's Wheatley's writing cam across, generally:

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neo-classical British writing;
non-original style, but masterful! Showed that Americans could at least produce that level of poet

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themes in Phyllis Wheately:

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Christian g i f t of salvation (even to slaves/blacks);
d i v i n e Newtonian universe;
African-American pride; plitical liberty (r w?) b e a u t y of nature.

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main Phyllis Wheatley poems & their themes: 1

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On Being Brought to America-spiritual equality of places (subtle)

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main Phyllis Wheatley poems & themes: 2

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To S.M. a Young African Painter on Seeing His Works--racial pride

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main Phyllis Wheatley poems & themes: 3

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On Death of the Rev. Mr. Geo. Whitefield, 1778"
--gift of salvation to Africans (slaves, incl.)

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St. Jean de Crevecoeur quote from "Ltrs from an Am. Farmer" regarding his own writing:

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"if they be not elegant, they will smell of the woods."

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Crevecoeur's "Ltrs...Farmer" quote about the road to success in America:

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"rational laws founded on perfect freedom"

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Basic Idea of writing "Letters ...Farmer"

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trying to answer his own question"What is an American, this new man?"

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2 main concepts of St. Jean de Crevecoeur's "Ltrs...Farmer"

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the " American A d a m ", a new, unique creation

deverse people come here, blend "melting" pot !!!!!!!