Authors “Rip Van Winkle” “Thanatopsis”/ “Snowbound” “Tide”/ “Cross” “Nautilus”/ “Ironsides”

Washington Irving Irving’s most famous piece of writing

Washington Irving Answer: What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

John Greenleaf Whittier “It wouldn’t bring in food” - reference Whittier’s father is making

John Greenleaf Whittier Answer: What is formal education

William Cullen Bryant Title Bryant held - “_______ of _________ _________”

William Cullen Bryant Answer: What is “Father of American Poetry”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Longfellow was the first American to have a marble image in the Poets’ Corner here

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Answer: What is Westminister Abbey

Oliver Wendell Holmes Medical term he named

Oliver Wendell Holmes Answer: What is anesthesia

“Rip Van Winkle” Length of sleep

“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is 20 years

“Rip Van Winkle” Person Rip lived with at the end of the story

“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: Who is his daughter

“Rip Van Winkle” Created the peels of thunder

“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is nine-pin (bowling)

“Rip Van Winkle” Two places friends are now

“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is died in war -or- Congress

“Rip Van Winkle” Change in the picture at the hotel/inn

“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is King George to George Washington

From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” The young narrator compares the tunnel to this

From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is Aladdin’s cave

“Thanatopsis” The title means

“Thanatopsis” Answer: What is seeing death

From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Two “foreign” objects from outside after the snow

From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is “Chinese roof” and “Pisa’s leaning miracle”

From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Definition of idyll

From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is a nostalgic work describing a pleasant rural scene or homey setting

“Thanatopsis” Two things that decorate the tomb

“Thanatopsis” Answer: What is hills, vales, woods, rivers, brooks, ocean

“The Cross of Snow” Object Longfellow sees to make him start this poem

“The Cross of Snow” Answer: What is his wife’s picture

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” One of the interpretations of what this poem means

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Answer: What is some things change and some things stay the same -or- The past is erased - start new/move on

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Symbol of the waves

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Answer: What is hands of a mother/child/God

“The Cross of Snow” Symbol of the cross on his chest

“The Cross of Snow” Answer: What is the burden of his wife’s death - not being able to save her

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Definition of iambic meter

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Answer: What is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

“Old Ironsides” The purpose in writing this poem

“Old Ironsindes” Answer: What is to save the USS Constitution from being scrapped

“The Chambered Nautilus” The extended metaphor

“The Chambered Nautilus” Answer: What is comparing the growing of the nautilus to the growing of a human/development of the soul

“Old Ironsides” Holmes says this should happen instead of it being scrapped

“Old Ironsides” Answer: What is it should sink - so it stays in one piece

“The Chambered Nautilus” Definition of apostrophe

“The Chambered Nautlius” Answer: What is a direct address to an object or someone who is not present

“The Chambered Nautilus” Three human dwellings noted in stanza two

“The Chambered Nautilus” Answer: What is cell, tenant, and crypt