CENTURY /
COMMENTS (CHARACTERISTICS OF TEXT,
HISTORICAL AUTHOR IMPORTANT WORKS
BACKGROUND INFO)
PERIOD
Christopher addressee: Your Highnesses (to convince Ferdinand
"The Journal of the 1st voyage"
Pre-Colonial Columbus and Isabella [Spain] to continue funding his voyages)
Michael Drayton “To the Virginian Voyage” positivity of New World, Virginia as paradise
historical, fact-based text, one of the most important
William Bradford “Of Plymouth Plantation”
early chronicles of the settlement in New England
“The Narrative of Captivity and fact-based, motive of enslavement (captivity) and
Mary Rowlandson
Restoration” religion
Sarah Kemble “The Private Journal of a Journey listed the differences between people from Boston
Knight from Boston to New York" and New York
“Sinners in the Hands of Angry gathering people back to the faith and church by
Jonathan Edwards
God” showing them the threatening vision of hell
introduction by a 3rd voice (medieval), debate poetry
in a sarcastic tone, metaphysical conceit (comparison
of things that are very dissimilar at first glance),
The Flesh and The Spirit”
personified abstractions of a constant dialogue
between flesh (body), who is sinning and spirit (soul)
which has higher religious meaning
Anne Bradstreet
the author wears kind of mask, as she wants to be
equal as men, she does not want to be censored, men
„The Prologue”
might be better but woman need space to create too,
feminism
„Verses upon Burning of our House,
July 10th, 1666”
“Prologue”
position of man is minimized, as the significance is on
God, vivid description of God, Hell as a forceful
Colonial Period
phenomenon, a speech between Jesus (advocate) and
(17th c.) “Meditation 39”
sinner (client); motive of grace, as sinner cannot
Edward Taylor
deliver any evidence do God but God is convinced and
they enter heaven
concerning aspect of temptation, as fly is a sinner,
“Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” potentially human, spider is the devil; spider’s net is
almost invisible and fly gets caught in it
"Bonifacious. An Essay upon the
Cotton Mather
Good"
Michael
"The Day of Doom" rather harsh description of the last judgement
Wigglesworth
"A Key into the Languages of
Roger Williams language of Native Americans
America"
historical text about the expedition Mason-Dixon,
William Bird „The History of the Dividing Line” established the boundary line between the American
provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland
, he writes it as if he knew that one day the work will be
Benjamin Franklin “The Autobiography” published, saying good things about himself, doing
good is what interests an Enlightened man
The
Thomas Paine “Common Sense” “now is the time”
Enlightenment
natural rights (important, crucial), adds God to those
(18th c.) Thomas Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence”
rights: the right to be free, to live, and to be happy
America is often described as a pot, a mix of
Jean de Crevecoeur “Letters from an American Farmer”
nationalities
a reflection upon simple living in natural
Henry David Thoreau “Walden; or, Life in the Woods"
surroundings
Transcendentalism
Margaret Fuller “Woman in the 19 Century”
th
(19th c.)
Ralph Waldo
“Nature”
Emerson
“The Masque of the Red Death” you cannot find the shelter while attacked by virus
raven is a symbol of connection with life after death;
“The Raven”
he has news from heaven
Edgar Allan Poe “Dream-Land”
madness, family, isolation, metaphysical identities;
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
dark, gothic atmosphere, tension
“The Landscape Garden” nature should be slightly artificial, close to original
“Moby Dick” symbolist novel, dedicated to Hawthorne
"Battle-pieces and Aspects of the
War: Civil War Poems"
John Brown - Holy Martyr, died for the cause, symbol
Herman Melville "Portent" (from Battle-pieces)
that something is coming
"Misgivings" (from Battle-pieces)
"Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)"
a requiem, commemorating people who are dead
(from Battle-pieces)
return to Puritanism, analyzed as symbolist novel,
Romanticism
connection between sin and crime; four characters,
(19th c.) "The Scarlet Letter"
names explain whom we deal with; forest as extra
character
Nathaniel
about young people who plan to get married but
Hawthorne
"The House of the Seven Gables" couldn't, because of conflict between two families
(Romeo & Juliet vibe)
has connection to transcendentalists; new England,
"The Blithedale Romance"
utopian community, brook farm;
Ambrose Bierce
“241” agony is truth, you cannot fake death
A person has died for beauty and is in a tomb. The
person in the next tomb has died for truth. The person
“449” who died for truth tells the person who died from
Emily Dickinson
beauty that they died for the same thing. They talk
until the moss covers their names and their lips.
speaker seems to welcome death and compliment
“712”
him on his manners and appealing personality.
COMMENTS (CHARACTERISTICS OF TEXT,
HISTORICAL AUTHOR IMPORTANT WORKS
BACKGROUND INFO)
PERIOD
Christopher addressee: Your Highnesses (to convince Ferdinand
"The Journal of the 1st voyage"
Pre-Colonial Columbus and Isabella [Spain] to continue funding his voyages)
Michael Drayton “To the Virginian Voyage” positivity of New World, Virginia as paradise
historical, fact-based text, one of the most important
William Bradford “Of Plymouth Plantation”
early chronicles of the settlement in New England
“The Narrative of Captivity and fact-based, motive of enslavement (captivity) and
Mary Rowlandson
Restoration” religion
Sarah Kemble “The Private Journal of a Journey listed the differences between people from Boston
Knight from Boston to New York" and New York
“Sinners in the Hands of Angry gathering people back to the faith and church by
Jonathan Edwards
God” showing them the threatening vision of hell
introduction by a 3rd voice (medieval), debate poetry
in a sarcastic tone, metaphysical conceit (comparison
of things that are very dissimilar at first glance),
The Flesh and The Spirit”
personified abstractions of a constant dialogue
between flesh (body), who is sinning and spirit (soul)
which has higher religious meaning
Anne Bradstreet
the author wears kind of mask, as she wants to be
equal as men, she does not want to be censored, men
„The Prologue”
might be better but woman need space to create too,
feminism
„Verses upon Burning of our House,
July 10th, 1666”
“Prologue”
position of man is minimized, as the significance is on
God, vivid description of God, Hell as a forceful
Colonial Period
phenomenon, a speech between Jesus (advocate) and
(17th c.) “Meditation 39”
sinner (client); motive of grace, as sinner cannot
Edward Taylor
deliver any evidence do God but God is convinced and
they enter heaven
concerning aspect of temptation, as fly is a sinner,
“Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” potentially human, spider is the devil; spider’s net is
almost invisible and fly gets caught in it
"Bonifacious. An Essay upon the
Cotton Mather
Good"
Michael
"The Day of Doom" rather harsh description of the last judgement
Wigglesworth
"A Key into the Languages of
Roger Williams language of Native Americans
America"
historical text about the expedition Mason-Dixon,
William Bird „The History of the Dividing Line” established the boundary line between the American
provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland
, he writes it as if he knew that one day the work will be
Benjamin Franklin “The Autobiography” published, saying good things about himself, doing
good is what interests an Enlightened man
The
Thomas Paine “Common Sense” “now is the time”
Enlightenment
natural rights (important, crucial), adds God to those
(18th c.) Thomas Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence”
rights: the right to be free, to live, and to be happy
America is often described as a pot, a mix of
Jean de Crevecoeur “Letters from an American Farmer”
nationalities
a reflection upon simple living in natural
Henry David Thoreau “Walden; or, Life in the Woods"
surroundings
Transcendentalism
Margaret Fuller “Woman in the 19 Century”
th
(19th c.)
Ralph Waldo
“Nature”
Emerson
“The Masque of the Red Death” you cannot find the shelter while attacked by virus
raven is a symbol of connection with life after death;
“The Raven”
he has news from heaven
Edgar Allan Poe “Dream-Land”
madness, family, isolation, metaphysical identities;
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
dark, gothic atmosphere, tension
“The Landscape Garden” nature should be slightly artificial, close to original
“Moby Dick” symbolist novel, dedicated to Hawthorne
"Battle-pieces and Aspects of the
War: Civil War Poems"
John Brown - Holy Martyr, died for the cause, symbol
Herman Melville "Portent" (from Battle-pieces)
that something is coming
"Misgivings" (from Battle-pieces)
"Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)"
a requiem, commemorating people who are dead
(from Battle-pieces)
return to Puritanism, analyzed as symbolist novel,
Romanticism
connection between sin and crime; four characters,
(19th c.) "The Scarlet Letter"
names explain whom we deal with; forest as extra
character
Nathaniel
about young people who plan to get married but
Hawthorne
"The House of the Seven Gables" couldn't, because of conflict between two families
(Romeo & Juliet vibe)
has connection to transcendentalists; new England,
"The Blithedale Romance"
utopian community, brook farm;
Ambrose Bierce
“241” agony is truth, you cannot fake death
A person has died for beauty and is in a tomb. The
person in the next tomb has died for truth. The person
“449” who died for truth tells the person who died from
Emily Dickinson
beauty that they died for the same thing. They talk
until the moss covers their names and their lips.
speaker seems to welcome death and compliment
“712”
him on his manners and appealing personality.
