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The American Romantic Period - Coggle Diagram
The American Romantic Period
Emotion over reason
Emphasis on creativity and imagination
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
by Melville: a creative story with heavy symbolism about obsession
Individualism
Walt Whitman
"Song of Myself" by Whitman: poem about the personal connection between the person, the soul, and nature
Nature is sacred/spiritual
Trancendatlism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature" by Emerson: foundational transcendentalist essay
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
by Thoreau: emphasized the importance of simple living in nature
Supernatural and Gothic Elements
American Gothic
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Raven" by Poe: gothic poem about grief and madness
Idealism and Optimism about human potential
Dark Romanticism: the other side of idealism - focusing on human flaws
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
by Hawthorne: novel about shame and sin in a Puritan society
