From the following links, choose one essay or poem to think about and annotate so that you can compare it to the writings we have already discussed from Transcendentalist authors. Choose one and add the information to your graphic organizer.

Emily Dickinson – Poems with Transcendentalism ideas

Walt Whitman – Song of Myself

Walt Whitman – Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Walt Whitman – When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed

Ralph Waldo Emerson – you will have to search this site for a work to examine

Margaret Fuller – Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Henry David Thoreau – The Writings of Thoreau

Required element:

characters

author background

motifs

symbols

4 quotes/significance

2 rhetorical strategies

figurative language

archetypes

plot points-major beginning to end

themes

image/art representation

Here is a hard copy of the data sheet. I did not create it, but it will work for those of you needing a copy until I create a better version for student use.

Major Works Data Sheet (page 1)

Major Works Data Sheet (page 2)

Major Works Data Sheet (page 3)

Major Works Data Sheet (page 4)