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Graded Assignment Unit Test, Part 2: American Renaissance Answer the questions using complete sentences. You may use your text to support your answers. (15 points) Score 1. Compare and contrast Emerson’s poem “The Snow-Storm” with Emily Dickinson’s poem “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves.” In what ways are their depictions of the snowstorms similar and different? How do the differences affect the mood of each piece? Answer: Emerson's poem “The Snow-Storm” seems to be admiring the snow storm. He begins by talking about how it arrives, and how once it comes it has various effects on the daily life of the people. For example, he says that snow storm's arrival is announced by trumpets, meaning the thunder and clouds at the sky, and when it arrives it's effects are stopping the sled and traveler, slowing the courier and keeping families together closed at home around the fireplace. In his poem Emerson also talks about how the snow covers hills, rivers, farms and makes everything white. He then describes the way the snow falls and covers things. He compares it with a crafts man making his artistic creation. Emerson later names the finished work of the snow-storm “The frolic architecture of the snow.” Dickinson's poem is similar as it also talks about snow. In this poem however she doesn't mention the snow but instead uses metaphors to describe it. With every stanza she gives the readers hints on what she is talking about. In the first stanza for example, she talks about how is like a powder that “sifts from a laden sieve,” and how it is cold. On the second stanza she continues telling how this things makes things look equal as it covers them all. From this readers can guess that she is talking about the snow, because it falls like a powder from the clouds, it is cold and covers everything making it seem as if it was always equal. For the rest of the poem's stanzas Dickinson explains the beauty of the snow when it covers the whole land, comparing all its deeds to the way an artisan makes something. What makes those two poems similar is that they both talk about how the snow, which isn't much appreciated by the general public, is actually something great and beautiful. They both talk about the way the snow covers the lands and how once it is done it leaves quietly. They both also use personification in their poems. (20 points) Score 2. Choose a poem from Whitman, and explain how it reveals Romantic thinking. Cite examples from the poem as your support. Answer: Whitman's poem “Song of Myself” promotes romanticism. In his poem he addresses individualism, nature, democracy and other things. Individualism is seen through most parts of the poem, specially on the first part where he says “ I celebrate myself and sing myself.” On the second part he is seen to encourage people to see things for themselves rather than accept what people tell them. He encourages them to “listen to all sides and filter them for yourself.” He also understands and accepts diversity as something natural, instead of weird, and in his words he ,”resists anything better than my own diversity.” We also see some parts of the poem where he talks about nature. One is the part where he talks about what grass is and how he himself doesn't have enough information to answer the very question of what grass is. He does however come up with some philosophies and interpretations of his own. Part 31 of the poem also addresses nature. Democracy is something that Whitman took as an aspiration to write this poem. Through out his poem, we find instances where he talks about American democracy like “I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard.” (20 points) Score 3. Reread this quotation from near the end of “Walden Pond”: Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher’s desk. Explain this quotation. Be sure to address the “wealth” Thoreau claims, his use of that wealth, and his views of the workshop or school Answer: Thoreau is know for spending a lot of his time with nature. So to him, wealth would be not money and property. His wealth would be something natural, like sunny hours and summer days that allow him to spend more time outside admiring the beauty of nature. His wealth is the time he spends doing things he like and he doesn't care or regret the fact that he is spending too much of it being with nature. He also doesn't regret not spending it on workshops and teacher's desk because those things give no meaning to him. They are just things the society cares about. Your Score
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