HELP
Read the short excerpt. Identify the literary movement the following excerpt exemplifies.
I looked upon the scene before me --upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain --upon the bleak walls --upon the vacant eye-like windows --upon a few rank sedges --and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees --with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium --the bitter lapse into everyday life --the hideous dropping off of the veil.
A. Transcendentalism
B. Dark Romanticism
C. Rationalism
D. Modernism
I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet now I know how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in Heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
1. Consider Dickinson’s poem “Chartless.” This poem exemplifies the elements of ____________ Romanticism because…
A. Dark; it emphasizes an urban setting and focuses on the troubling aspects of the human psyche.
B. Dark; it emphasizes a darker and wilder tone and describes the harsher nature of human emotion and action.
C. Light; it emphasizes the individual rather than society and describes the individual as good despite society’s corrupting nature.
D. Light; it emphasizes imagination and discusses nature as a source of spiritual nourishment.