Poetry Historical Timeline

Stories originated from myths, legends and folk tales. Emphasizes in traditions passed on through generations.

• Native Americans

• Puritan Age

• Age of Reason

• Contemporary

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First group separated from England, but still had strong religious beliefs. They would write more hymn and religious poetry.

• Native Americans

• Puritan Age

• Age of Reason

• Contemporary

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Relationship of America with the Britain and the nature of government.

• Puritan Age

• Age of Reason

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Writings about imagination, emotions and nature. This was the way to escape from the reality.

• Puritan Age

• Age of Reason

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

Writings about death, fear, guilt, selfishness. Still imagination, but more pesimistic.

• Age of Reason

• Dark Romanticism

• Romanticism

• Realism

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Writings about nature and the inner goodness of people. Simplicity and justice.

• Dark Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• Realism

• Naturalism

Writing transition to ordinary and real experiences. A lot of blood and fights description. Stories about slaves and injustice.

• Realism

• Transcendentalism

• Naturalism

• Regionalism

Writing focuses on the negative aspects of the human beings. The unforgivable aspects, the physical and phsychological aspects taken to the extreme. About the stars and the unexplained aspects of life.

• Realism

• Modernism

• Naturalism

• Regionalism

Writings focused on the loyalty to the interests of a particular region. Each country side has their own little stories.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Modernism

• Regionalism

• Contemporary

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

People lost faith on the American Dream. Then World War I happened. Influenced by the jazz age.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Modernism

• Post-modernism

• Contemporary