Early American Literature Excercise 2
Terms
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Modernist Movement
1 - -19th century movement that challenged the notion that anything is firm and fixed by absolute truth
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Proto
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-means looking forward to/ anticipating
Douglass was a proto-modernist -
Asymptote/Asymptotic
3 - -a constant approach towards that perfect fulfillment that we all look for.
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"rising and gliding"
4 - -star terms in Whitman's poem "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer."
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Red
(Calvalry Crossing a Ford)
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-love, passion, shame
Scarlet signifies shame -
Blue
(Calvalry Crossing a Ford)
6 - -Elevated Spiritual Qualities
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White
(Calvalry Crossing a Ford)
7 - -Purity, Innocence, Candor
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Green
(Calvalry Crossing a Ford)
8 - -Hope, Spring, Youth, Promise
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Bird from "Kindred Spirits"
9 - -suggests life and the dissemination of life
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Nature diagram (from American Scholar)
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1.Flower (Fruit/Petals)
2.Stem (Photosynthesis)
3.Root -
Humanity Physical External Diagram (American Scholar)
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1.Head(thinking)
2.Hands (working)
3.Feet (walking) -
Humanity Mental Internal Diagram (SPS)
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1. Speaking (consciousness)
2.Processing (will)
3.Seeing (instinct) -
Human Hereditary Diagram
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1. Adult
2. Youth
3. Child -
Human History Diagram
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1.Philosophical Ages
2.Romanesque
3.Classical -
Distinguish
15 - -means you maximize your talents and give something back to the process.
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Ontogeny (as related to the Human Hereditary Diagram)
16 - -is the development of the individual.
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Phylogeny (as related to the Human Hereditary Diagram)
17 - -elements that point back to biological history.
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Mandala
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-device used by people in Eastern religions who begin self analysis by examining life on the outer ring.
-greatly influenced Thoreau -
Phi
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-is a peculiar spiral pattern in the world that is equal to 2 divided by 3 (1.6). This is also known as the Golden Ratio.
Thoreau structured Walden according to the Golden Ratio. -
The Spiral Principle (according to Emerson)
20 - -unites and causes to be. There is no difference between the reader and the writer, the flower and the root, or the far and the near. It is an ocular deception to make a distinction.
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Binaries
21 - -Emerson said life is constructed in threes, yet we see things in binaries. When you understand things in three, you'll come out of the darkness. Also attacks mechanized deistic way of thinking.
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The American Scholar
22 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Walden
23 - Henry David Thoreau
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My Bondage and My Freedom
24 - Frederick Douglass