European Romanticism, with its turn to the medieval/exotic past and emphasis on wild, tremendous, hidden aspects of human soul, becomes: American Gothic (exploration of Darkness, often metaphysical) Transcendentalism (return to Nature) PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) -Wealthy origins; West Indies, British capture experience sensitizes him towards anti-slavery, anti-British imperialism; journalist and of the American Revolution”; after savage political “Poet activity, died impoverished and unknown. -Didacticism, philosophical spirit and sensuous verse -Influence on later Romantic Primitivism, Gothic, and Transcendentalism Indian Burying Ground” “The 18th-century Poetry” influence “Graveyard Why a Native American graveyard? Vocabulary for Natives Is their mysticism appreciated? Why is burial posture important? that knows no rest” symbolic of? “Activity c/c Keats’s to a Grecian Urn” “Ode Past ghosts vs white visitor--> reciprocal cultural assimilation (final couplet)? History as (Jacques Derrida) “trace” EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
European Romanticism, with its turn to the medieval/exotic past and emphasis on wild, tremendous, hidden aspects of human soul, becomes: American Gothic (exploration of Darkness, often metaphysical) Transcendentalism (return to Nature) PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832) -Wealthy origins; West Indies, British capture experience sensitizes him towards anti-slavery, anti-British imperialism; journalist and “Poet of the American Revolution”; after savage political activity, died impoverished and unknown. -Didacticism, philosophical spirit and sensuous verse -Influence on later Romantic Primitivism, Gothic, and Transcendentalism “The Indian Burying Ground” 18th-century “Graveyard Poetry” influence Why a Native American graveyard? Vocabulary for Natives Is their mysticism appreciated? Why is burial posture important? “Activity that knows no rest” symbolic of? c/c Keats’s “Ode to a Grecian Urn” Past ghosts vs white visitor--> reciprocal cultural assimilation (final couplet)? History as “trace” (Jacques Derrida) EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
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