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| 3707051579 | Romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason; valued nature over society; valued the child more than the adult; valued beauty; and valued "truth" |  | 0 |
| 3707051580 | Romantic Poets | Poets who wrote romantic poetry from 1770-1870; people like Henry David Thoreau, William Blake, John Keats, Walt Whitman, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. |  | 1 |
| 3707051581 | Henry David Thoreau | A famous American thinker, philosopher, and writer. Wrote "Walden" a book about thinking beside a lake while living in a cabin. |  | 2 |
| 3707051582 | Walden | a famous American work of philosophy written by Henry David Thoreau. |  | 3 |
| 3707051583 | Innocence | The idea that because you are young, you haven't been corrupted by the world yet and you are unaware of the evil in the world. |  | 4 |
| 3707051584 | Walt Whitman | A famous Romantic American Poet; wrote "Leaves of Grass" |  | 5 |
| 3707051585 | Sublime | a very special and unusual state of being usually involving bliss and a spiritual connection. |  | 6 |
| 3707051586 | Truth | The actual state of something; how it really is. |  | 7 |
| 3707051587 | Transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson and deeply linked to Romanticism that emerged in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. |  | 8 |
| 3707051588 | Gothic Style Literature and Art | Part of what is known as "Dark Romanticism", this form of literature and art stressed the dark, creepy, mysterious, and the supernatural. Vampires, Werewolves, and even Batman are all representative of Gothic Art. |  | 9 |
| 3707051591 | Realism | The opposite of Romanticism, this movement in literature and art stressed and valued what is physical and real, for example, realists believed that nature was dangerous and violent and on present nothing but a life-threatening challenge to human beings. This movement was a reaction to Romanticism. |  | 10 |
| 3707051594 | emotion | feeling; sentiment; passion |  | 11 |
| 3707051595 | The "Common Man" | The idea in Romantic Poetry that the "common person" was special; the "average Joe" is important and the working class of people are important and everyday work is important. |  | 12 |
| 3707051596 | Naturalism and Natural Realism | A nineteenth-century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was. |  | 13 |
| 3707051597 | Individualism | The idea that the individual is important; each and every person is special and more important that "the Group". |  | 14 |
| 3707051598 | Industrial Revolution | When things started getting mass produced by machines and factories and many people left working on farms for a life working in factories. Pollution began to become a problem at this time. |  | 15 |
| 3707051601 | Dark Romanticism | The part of the Romantic Movement that valued and emphasized negative emotions like anger, sadness, hate, and despair. |  | 16 |
| 3707051604 | rural | the countryside; farm country |  | 17 |
| 3707051605 | urban | of or related to cities |  | 18 |
| 3707051607 | divine | god like; supernatural in a spiritual way |  | 19 |
| 3707210813 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement. |  | 20 |
| 3709154728 | Civil Disobedience | A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences. This idea was originally put forth by Henry David Thoreau and then practiced by Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |  | 21 |
| 3709172243 | To Romanticize Something | Means to glorify and celebrate something (a place, person, product, activity, event, etc.) in a way that makes it out to be special and ideal. |  | 22 |
| 3709222946 | self-reliance | The idea of relying upon one's self for your survival and well being. The notion was put forward in an essay by the same name written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalist and Philosopher. |  | 23 |
| 3709240203 | solitude | being alone but in peace with yourself and your surroundings. |  | 24 |
