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Background The Civil War The“Gilded”Age Author Walt Whitman Harriet Beecher Stowe – “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Emily Dickinson Mark Twain – “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” Vocabulary Question time!!!

The Civil War( ) The war between North and South states. Caused by argument about slavery. Emancipation proclamation( ) was announced by Abraham Lincoln in war. The war finished victory of North.

The Gilded Age The period of the Civil War was a time when a small number of millionaire businessman held great power in America society. Many people thought this period as a new “Golden Age.” But gold was only surface. Underneath, American society was filled with crime and social injustice. It was, in fact, only a “Gilded Age.”

He wanted “to define America, her athletic democracy.” and maintained a joyous curiosity about every detail of life. He also“absorbs” the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the world around him, and then he “sings” them out in poetry. He engaged the Civil War as a nurse and greatly admired President Lincoln and saw him as a symbol of the goodness of mankind.

Leaves of Grass This poem remained an incomplete “work-in-progress” Song of Myself This extremely long poem announces all of the major themes of Whitman’s work. O Captain! My Captain! This poem was written about the murder of Lincoln in 1865.

Her work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin united Northern feelings against slavery. Hundreds of thousands of copies were sold in America before the Civil War, since then it has been translated into over twenty languages and millions of copies have been sold worldwide. In 1863, when Lincoln met her in Washington, he greeted her with “So you’re little woman who made the book that made the great war.”

It is the story of an old black slave, Uncle Tom, who has the hope of freedom held before him but who never escapes from his slavery. In the end, he welcomes the death caused by his cruel master, Simon Legree.

She was New England woman who wrote during the Civil War era and lived a quiet, private life in a big old house in her little hometown. She created a very personal and pure kind of poetry because she was cut off from the outside. Since her death, her reputation has grown enormously and her poetry is now seen as very modern for its time.

He had grown up around the Mississippi River,and then he described that “all existence” and an important symbol of “human journey” He created the phrase “Gilded Age” for his next novel, The Gilded Age, co- written with Charles Warner. Throughout his works, we see the conflict between the ideal of Americans and their desire for money but he never tried to solve the conflict.

It is the story that Huck and an escaped slave, Jim, are floating down the Mississippi River on a raft. During their trip Huck learns about the evil of the world. Huck, meanwhile, is facing a big moral problem. Society forced Jim to be his “owner”. But he decides that the slave is a man, not a “thing”. He thinks about morality and then decides to break the law.

Boldness : an opposite of being shy. ex) The Boston Brahmins disliked his boldness… Vulgarity : the quality of being common, coarse and unrefined. ex)The story combines frontier vulgarity… Ornament : an attractive object that you display something. ex)He wrote without the usual poetic ornaments… Folklore : traditional stories, customs, and habits of a particular community or nation. ex)…he popularized Negro folklore. Gild : decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold. ex)It was, in fact, only a “Gilded Age”.

Corpse : a dead body, especially the body of human. ex)I saw battle corpse… Abolitionist : someone who campaigns for the abolition of a particular system or practice. Propaganda : information, often inaccurate, which a political organization publishes in order to influence people. ex)As a masterpiece of Abolitionist propaganda… Overmaster : to overpower emotion or human. ex)Belief overmasters doubt… Hoax : a trick in which someone tells people a lie. ex)…Western humor story called a “hoax”.

1. What is the Stowe’s major work? A : Uncle Tom’s Cabin 2. Who wrote The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn ? A : Mark Twain 3. Who is the president of North in the Civil War? A : Abraham Lincoln

An Outline of American Literature