1. Bell Ringer2/11 COMPLETE THE HALF SHEET GRAMMAR QUESTIONS FOR WORD CHOICE

2. American Romanticism YOU WILL BE TAKING NOTES!

3. Romanticism Reacts Against Too Much Logic  Romanticism is the name for the school of thought that values feelings and intuition over reason and science.  Opposite of the revolutionary writers and the age of reason.  It was an artistic, intellectual, literary movement.  Americans were trying to create a distinct, new “American” literature  Remember, we’d only officially been a country for a couple of decades.

4. Romantic Setting/Environment  American Romantic poets and writers looked for “exotic” settings (in the “more natural) past or to the natural world.  These natural/exotic environments helped writers escape the dull realities of the rationalists’ grimy, dirty, and noisy cities.

8. Romantic American Heroes  As the US grew westward, frontier life was idealized.  Writers of Romanticism argued that innocent American heroes had virtue, not sophisticated Europeans.  The good things in life were found in the American wilderness not cities or libraries.

9. Transcendentalism  A movement within romanticism.  Transcendentalism : The idea that in order to reach God, the universe, and your true self, you must transcend, or go beyond, everyday human experience in the physical world.  This is because true reality was found in ideas, not in the world perceived by the senses.

10. The 5 “I”s of Romanticism  Intuition  Imagination  Individualism  Inspiration  Idealism

11. RECAP  Romanticism is not about being “in love”  It’s about valuing nature, imagination, optimism, and creativity.  A traditional romantic setting is natural  A romantic hero had virtue, “street smarts”, and honored the frontier  Transcendentalists believe in being your true self to experience life more deeply.