Fireside Poets

Question 4 • [ELA11] ELA 11, Sem 1 (26-27)

Did you include key ideas from both poems in your answer? Select any ideas you included.

Answer

Lowell uses concrete language.

Lowell focuses on the image of birds and changing seasons.

Longfellow uses both concrete and abstract language.

Longfellow uses many images.

Longfellow’s speaker addresses “us,” creating an abstract, preachy tone.

Lowell uses “I,” creating a personal tone.

Assignment

Fireside Poets

Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience"