1. The Civil War and the “Gilded Age”
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2. CONTENTS 1. Background of Civil War and “Gilded age” . Authors. Movie
4. Key Words.
5. Quiz Time.

3. 1. Background of Civil war.
1. Between South and North of America.
2. Constitutional Recognition.
3. Slavery Abolition.
4. Victory of North.

4. Blue : North
Gray : South

5. Gilded Age.
Agricultural Society Greedy Corruption Industrial Society.

6. 2. Authors. Walt Whitman (1819~1892)
1. He wanted to make the America as athletic democracy.
2. He was affected by early jobs in printing shops
and newspapers rather than schools.
3. He liked to enjoy rural life and maintain a joyous
curiosity about every detail of life.
4. He considered that the life is never over.
5. He freed American poem from the old English
tradition.
6. He engaged in Civil War(1861~ 1865).
Works : Leaves of Grass
Song of Myself
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

7. Song of myself. (Walt Whitman )
Movie
Song of myself. (Walt Whitman )

8. Emily Dickinson (1830~1886)
She lived in rural and quite area, so she was not be influenced by the environment in 19C.
She wrote about love, death, soul and heaven.
Her poetry is filled with images and themes.

9. Mark Twain (1835~1910)
He had grown up on the river in Hannibal, Missouri.
It made him hear and feel the stories and culture of the black slaves.
His works were filled with stories about how ordinary people trick
experts. And Around Civil War, he tried to deal with the new morality
of post Civil War America.
Works : Life on the Mississippi.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog.
The Innocents Abroad. A tramp Abroad.
The Gilded Age.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

10. 3. Keywords. Gilded Age - The era of Post - Civil War
Local color - Shows what was special about
a particular region of the nation
Free verse - Poetry without a regular rhythm or rhyme
Influence of Transcendentalist idea -
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson

11. 4. Quiz Time!!!! Who is the person that invented a completely new and
American form of poetry called " free verse"?
What is the most significant event happened in the era?
(hint-It was caused by slavery)

12. Thank you very much!!