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35 Cards in this Set
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Meditation on death |
Thanatopsis |
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Live your life so you have no regrets so you're not fighting death--go quietly because you've lived your life well |
Thanatopsis |
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Civilization is coming. He says it is bad |
The Prairie by Bryant |
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Man chases away perfectness of nature? |
The Prairie by Bryant |
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Civilization has not arrived yet? |
The Prairies by Bryant |
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Winter is coming to soon destroy the gentian--just like this flower, Bryant wants to look to heaven as he prepares to die |
To the Fringed Gentian by Bryant |
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Pushes readers to do something with their life |
A Psalm of Life by Longfellow |
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Our lives can have meaning and we can be a good example to the next generation |
A Psalm of Life by Longfellow |
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Denounces what he believes is pointless war |
The Arsenal at Springfield by Longfellow |
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We spend too much for weapons but if we would spend money on education--there will be no war |
The Arsenal of Springfield by Longfellow |
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Replace war with love |
The Arsenal of Springfield by Longfellow |
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About Jews and what they've been through |
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport by Longfellow |
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Is trying to show what Christianity has done to the Jews? |
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport by Longfellow |
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A poem about sadness of maybe not fulfilling all his dreams and about thing that have changed? |
My Lost Youth by Longfellow |
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What is a story about Hiawatha's childhood. How Nokomis falling from heaven to Hiawatha entering manhood |
The Song of Hiawatha |
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Talking about the slave chasers that chase the runaway slaves |
The Hunters of Men by Whittier |
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Meant to be a rebuke and get the hearts of white mothers |
The Farewell: Of a Virginia Slave mother to her daughters sold into southern bondage by Whittier |
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Poem about how we need to reject the idea that we should return a slave back |
Massachusetts to Virgina |
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George Latimer who freed his slaves was the inspiration of this poem |
Massachusetts to Virgina |
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actual person that ruled Haiti for a few short years before Napoleon takes him to prison |
Toussaint L'Ouverture |
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What is about a 90 woman that refuses to take down her American flag during the Civil War? |
Barbara Frietchie |
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What was a story remembering his childhood |
To the Dandelion by Lowell |
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What denounced the Mexican War and has lots of wisdom |
The Biglow papers, first series by Lowell |
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What is a poem criticizing all the Romantic authors? |
A Fable for Critics by Lowell |
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What is a poem about romantics that are distrustful of science? |
Sonnet--To Science by Poe |
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What was a still living; childhood crush that was a married woman |
To Helen by Poe |
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What was a contrast between heaven and hell about a city that is under the sea (the lost city)? |
The City in the Sea by Poe |
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What is about a death of a beautiful woman (young woman). About a woman that was poisoned by family members |
Lenore |
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Was about a death of a beautiful woman and the foretelling of someone's death? |
The Raven by Poe |
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What is the last poem that this author writes about the death of his wife? |
Annabel Lee by Poe |
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Who combines the physical side of man and spiritual side of man and states that both are equally important? |
Song of Myself by Whitman |
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War intrudes on everyday life |
From Drum-Taps: Beat! Beat! Drums! |
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Reminiscent snapshot movement of an army |
Calvary Crossing a Ford |
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A poem about companionship between men in battle |
Vigil Strange I kept on the Field one Night by Whitman |
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What was the center of all Whitman's poems that is an autobiography account of Whitman |
The Wound-Dresser |
