Post on 15-Jan-2016
transcript
Poetry-pa-
looza
100
200
300
400
500
200
100
300
400
500
200
100
300
400
500
200
100
300
400
500
200
100
300
400
500
200
100
300
400
500
Fan-tastic Ro-
mantic
SNIPD!
Symbols, You Say?
What You Say?
Say What,
Again?
Poetry-pa-looza – 100
This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 100
“Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon’s roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more.”
What is love of the past OR valuing the
past?
Poetry-pa-looza – 200
This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 200
“No more shall feel the victor’s tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!”
What is distrust of civilization/ government?
Poetry-pa-looza – 300
This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 300
“Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave”
What is love of nature?
Poetry-pa-looza – 400
This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 400
“When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick”
What is distrust/ criticism of civilization
or society?
Poetry-pa-looza – 500
This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 500
“Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.”
What is love of nature?
Fantastic Romantic – 100
This is one of the qualities of a hero from the Romantic era.
What is:
•driven by instinct/intuition
•rugged/ tough
•solitary/ reflective
•emotional
•connected to nature
Fantastic Romantic – 200
This is the Romantic era attitude toward religion.
What is strong and connected
to love of nature?
Fantastic Romantic – 300
This is something the Romantics wanted to celebrate and found to be inspirational, believing that it holds a higher
place than reason or logic.
What is emotion?
Fantastic Romantic – 400
This is something the Romantics celebrated for its
power and mystery and something they saw as very closely connected to God.
What is nature?
Fantastic Romantic – 500
This is the name of the poem we studied that helped us draw
many comparisons between the Age of Reason and the
Romantic era.
What is “The Learn’d
Astronomer”?
SNIPD! – 100
This is S.
What is fondness or celebration of the
supernatural and the unexplained and
mysteries?
SNIPD! – 200
This is I – in opposition to deciding something based
on evidence.
What is intuition?
SNIPD! – 300
This is D.
What is distrust of society or of
civilization?
SNIPD! – 400
This is why the Romantics like the Past.
What is like the ideals or the virtues
of people in the past or great deeds
of the past?
SNIPD! – 500
This is I – to do with a rejection of conformity.
What is independence?
Symbols, You Say? – 100
This is what Prince Prospero represents.
What is wealthy people, trying to hide from reality
and death?
Symbols, You Say? – 200
This is what the clock represents in “Masque of
the Red Death.”
What is time and fears about the end of life?
Symbols, You Say? – 300
This is what the seven rooms represent in Prince
Prospero’s abbey.
What are the various stages
of life?
Symbols, You Say? – 400
This is what the abbey represents in “Masque of the
Red Death.”
What are the restrictions that keep poor people
away from wealthy people OR a false sense of safety
that the wealthy have in their success to hide from
life’s problems?
Symbols, You Say? – 500
This is what the people at Prince Prospero’s abbey
represent.
What are the people who blindly follow others in
society rather than thinking for themselves OR the
people who pretend together that they can cheat death or
avoid pain in life?
What You Say? – 100
This is the Romantic connection Gavin DeGraw is making in the statement: “I
don’t wanna be anything other than what I’ve been tryin’ to be lately”.
What is a connection to
independence?
What You Say? – 200
This is what Emerson is praising or criticizing in the statement: “To be
great is to be misunderstood”.
What is criticizing conformity OR
praising independence?
What You Say? – 300
This is what Thoreau is specifically angry that the US government is doing
when he discusses: “That government is best which
governs the least”.
What is slavery OR the
Mexican War?
What You Say? – 400
This is how Emerson’s idea that “Envy is
ignorance” is connected to the Romantic concept of
the supernatural.
What is his belief that when humans want to be different than who or what
they are made to be by God, they are displaying
their foolishness?
What You Say? – 500
This is the reason Emerson’s statement
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind” would be seen as
controversial.
What is because he suggests that what religions call sacred may not actually be
sacred?
Say What, Again? – 100
This is the person who wrote about a “happy and dauntless and sagacious” person with “eccentric yet
august taste”.
Who is Edgar Allan
Poe?
Say What, Again? – 200
This is the person who wrote: “It matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once
done well is done forever.”
Who is Henry David
Thoreau?
Say What, Again? – 300
This is the person who wrote: “To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Who is Ralph Waldo
Emerson?
Say What, Again? – 400
This is what readers should understand is Poe’s purpose
for the unknown masked figure’s clothes being
“untenanted by any tangible form” in the end of his story.
What is because it death is not
tangible OR cannot be stopped by human efforts?
Say What, Again? – 500
This is the criticism inherent in Poe’s idea
from the courtiers that “the external world could take
care of itself.”
What is a criticism of selfish leaders
OR greedy people OR of the wealthy?
FINAL JEOPARDY
Make a Jeopardy question from our readings to stump your opponents.