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Dennis clemente ziggy corcueradong leeAustin Nicholsjoie payumo

bram salasaiko watanabeerin wong

Fireside

poets

+FIRESIDE POETSHenry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf WhittierOliver Wendell HolmesJames Russell LowellWilliam Cullen Bryant

Cameron, Julia Margaret. Longfellow. 1868. JPG.

Schurz, Carl. Whittier. 1907. JPG.

Hawes, Josiah Johnson. Daguerreotype of Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1856. JPG.

Norton, Charles Eliot. Lowell. 1855. JPG.

Mora, Jose Maria. William. 1878.

+FIRESIDE POETS“Schoolroom" or "household" poetsAmerican poets to rival British poetsOverly sentimental or moralizingScholarship, political sensibilities,

resilience of their linesLonger narrative poems American legends and home life

+ William Cullen Bryant 1794 - 1878

November 3, 1794As an infant, he was

frail and sickly.Staff of the New

York Evening Post.

Evans, William T. William Cullen Bryant. 1878. JPG.

+ William Cullen Bryant 1794 - 1878

Studied Law”a thoughtful,

meditative character, and makes but slight appeal to the mass of readers” (Alexander K. McClure pp.62)

The Illiad

+To a WaterfowlExemplifies AlienationBryant parallels the birds instincts to a

"Power” (Bryant, William Cullen 219) God will always go wherever you goTheme - Our faith in our God Genre - Poetry

Denney, Robert. Alabama Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Painting. 2009. JPG.

+To a WaterfowlLiterary TermsFigure of SpeechApostropheMetaphorPersonificationPoetryAlliteration

+ThanatopsisA peaceful view of deathComfort for the livingDeath is inevitable. “Yet not to thine

eternal resting-place” (Bryant, William Cullen 221)

Theme - Comfort of deathGenre - Poetry

Durand, Asher Brown. Thanatopsis. 1796 - 1886

+ThanatopsisLiterary TermsPersonificationImagerySymbolisms

+Olivier Wendell HolmesCambridge, MassachusettsHarvardPoet"Old Ironsides”Notable medic and poet"The Atlantic Monthly"

+Old IronsidesOliver Wendell HolmesUSS Constitution ShipTheme - PrideGenre – Poetry & Dramatic

+Old IronsidesAnalysisRhymeStanzaImageryPersonificationMetaphorMeter

+The Chambered NautilusSummary Lustrous Coil “Year after year beheld the silent toil that spread

his lustrous coil” (Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 227) An example for the soulGenre PoetryTheme Motif Imagery Greek Mythology

+The Chambered NautilusAnalysisStanzaRhymeIambMessage

+Works Cited "William Cullen Bryant." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation,

12 Sept. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2012. Alexander K. McClure, ed. (1902). Famous American

Statesmen & Orators. VI. New York: F. F. Lovell Publishing Company. pp. 62.

Bryant, William Cullen. To a Waterfowl … Illustrated, Etc. T.Y. Crowell & Co.: New York, 1887. Print.

Bryant, William Cullen. Thanatopsis. (A Poem). New York: D. Appleton, 1874. Print.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Chambered Nautilus. . Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895.

+Images Cited Cameron, Julia Margaret. Longfellow. 1868. JPG Schurz, Carl. Whittier. 1907. JPG Hawes, Josiah Johnson. Daguerreotype of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

1856. JPG. Norton, Charles Eliot. Lowell. 1855. JPG. Mora, Jose Maria. William. 1878. Evans, William T. William Cullen Bryant. 1878. JPG. Denney, Robert. Alabama Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Painting.

2009. JPG.

Durand, Asher Brown. Thanatopsis. 1796 – 1886 Moore, Richard C. Old Ironside. 1889. JPG. T.Baecher. The Chambered Nautilus. 1906.