Using the 3 questions on p.448, develop a coherent and well-supported response to each question and post. 11 sentences. Due before next class.
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Jasmin Church
1/20/2015 12:06:31 am
The Rise of Realism
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Sharlene M
1/20/2015 12:16:49 am
Q: how and when did American writers and poets respond to the civil war?
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Seren G
1/20/2015 06:07:41 pm
1) How and when did Americans writers and poets respond to the Civil War?
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Maria L.
1/21/2015 01:54:38 am
American writers and poets were responding to Civil War from the very beginning of the War, in 1861. One of them, Walt Whitman, wrote about how the start of a war was received by the common American, as the news reached the papers, and then the average citizen. Emerson, another poet and writer at the time, had predicted the war. He showed his patriotism through a poem called “Concord Hymn”, where he also foreshadowed the suffering the war was going to bring America.
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Anthony Doerfer
1/21/2015 03:27:58 am
1)How and when did American writers and poets respond to the civil war?
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Dylan N
1/21/2015 03:56:28 am
1. How and when did American writers and poets respond to the civil war?
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Michael Y
1/21/2015 04:15:59 am
1. How and when did American writers and poets respond to the Civil War?
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Alberto L.
1/21/2015 04:37:23 am
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Natasha Arrington
1/21/2015 04:47:52 am
American writers and poets began to respond to the Civil war during the time of conflict. Major writers who had be sent to the inevitable war weren't exactly as advantaged as they hoped they'd be. Other soldiers would write letters or keep diaries of their experiences in the midst of the tragedy and were precisely detailed. Shortly, the rise of realism became a tool for writers at the time. These writers were known as realists who focused more on their changing surroundings (e.g. rapidly growing cities).This also including the everyday life of ordinary people. They took a more literal approach and observed the social scientific ways of man and incorporated these aspects in their writing. Regionalism, too, provided a pathway for realism by setting a "specific geographic setting and that makes use of the speech and manners of people who live in that region" (457). Regional writers were less successful in in depicting realistic character and social environment. Like realist, naturalists, too, rely on the psychological and social aspects within the process of their writing. This is a tremendous part of naturalists writing, "... human behavior was determined by forces beyond the individual's power, especially by biology and environment" (460). Some believe that "humans are totally subjective to the natural laws of the universe; like animals, they live crudely, by instinct, unable to control their own destinies" (460). They see more of an instinctive and apathetic perspective on the human entity.
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Hannah S.
1/21/2015 05:57:24 am
1. Poets and writers after the Civil War used their writing skills to express their feelings about what had happened to their country. They used it to show their beliefs on the subject, as well as being able to express opinions and criticize what others thought. They started using their skills just after the war had ended.
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Trent.W
1/21/2015 06:47:19 pm
1.) How and when did American writers and poets respond to the Civil War?
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Ida-Kristine H. Aukan
1/22/2015 01:25:56 am
American writers and poets responded to the Civil war by telling the truth, by sharing the horrific details of the Civil war. There was few American writers who actually experienced the war up close, mostly the consequences of it. Like Walt Whitman who was a nurse during the Civil war and helped the wounded soldiers (pg. 451). So the poems and novels made by most are outside views and points. Even people born after the war wrote about it. There was soldiers who would keep letters, diaries, as well as journalistic writings which saw the light after the war though, when being published. After the Civil war, a new generation of writers called realists came of age. These where writers who aimed at a very minute fidelity to the common source of ordinary life. Use of everyday speech patterns to reveal class distinctions, focus on the ethical struggles and social issues from real life situations, detailed depiction of ordinary characters and realistic events, and avoidance of the exotic, sensation, and overly dramatic where all characteristics of realism. Naturalists where writers who relied heavily on the emerging scientific disciplines of psychology and sociology. They believed that we humans are like animals, we live crudely, by instinct, unable to control our own destinies. They thought that human life was a grim losing battle.
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Jared C
2/4/2015 04:58:34 pm
1. Many writers didn't think that war was caused because of just one reason but of many others that divided the North and the South. The writers respected the southerners will to fight and because off that they wrote books and poems that we still read today.
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Evin P.
2/20/2015 01:55:07 am
1. Many of the writers at the time didn't know that the Civil War wasn't caused by one event (ie slavery), but by many events that piled and piled on top of each other. After noticing the will of the Southerners to fight, they wrote literature that we still read today and for the possible future. The writers during the war relies that war isn't all the glory that was written about before. "War is at best barbarism ... . Its glory is all moonshine ... . War is hell. - Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
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