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American Romantic POETS: Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Phillis Wheatley Emily Dickinson Nathaniel Hawthorne Ralph Waldo Emerson Edgar Allen Poe Frederick Douglass

**"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" by Emily Dickinson ** http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/emily_dickinson/poems/6103

This poem is about the feeling that one gets after getting a great amount of suffrage. That after the painful sacrifice, comes a relief and proudness of that accomplishment, a feeling that never will be forgotten. I like this poem because It relates to my life experiences where I work hard for something but in the end the great feeling of succession comes and it makes the moment unforgettable. Kasia Gredzik

"As I Ponder'd in Silence" by Walt Whitman http://www.blackcatpoems.com/w/as_i_ponderd_in_silence.html I chose this poem because the title caught my attention. It caught my attention because a lot of times I think about things but never really say them aloud, so it lead me to believe that Walt Whitman does the same thing. This poem mentions the subject of war, and so do a lot of his other poems, so I think this poem is about how often he thinks about war but never really talks about it to anybody. Kim Neubauer

There was a child went fourth: -http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/There_Was_A_Chi.htm This poem is about a child who becomes what he is surrounded by because it is what he has always known. Everything in his life, as he grows up, influences him in some sort of way and a piece of every surrounding is left in him as he grows up through the years. I picked this poem because we are almost at the end of junior year and soon will be seniors, and because of this I can relate to this poem very much because I am growing up and I can see as that everything and everyone around me has affected the way I have and will turn out as a person one day. -Nicole Cionci

Claire Rucht Low-Anchored Cloud - Henry David Thoreau http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/low-anchored-cloud/ This poem is about a “low-anchored cloud”, which could mean mist or fog. I chose this poem because I found the imagery beautiful, especially “Dew-cloth, dream-drapery”. Also, I like poems that personify parts of nature and Thoreau does it by referring to the mist as a, “Spirit of lakes and seas and rivers”.

Vicki Pachucki [] "A charm invests a face" This is a poem by Emily Dickinson. What I like about all of her poems are that they are short, sweet, and to the point. This poem Talks about a girl and shes behind a vehile looking out to something "And wishes and denies" for something. Its not really all that clear, i like the confusion though. It adds a sense of mystery and almost ghost-like atmosphere around her poems.

Julian Watson []

I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson I love this poem! thats why i chose it. it makes so much sense. i relate to this first of all because i feel like i am someone yet i am no one. i am me to myself, yet i am no one to everyone else. hey i even love that line.and i feel if im near someone who feels the same that makes 2 of us so we can relate with one another. the poem is so vaguely visible yet intricately deep if u read between the lines theres a hidden meaning of lonelyness and seemingly self hatred.And i also beleive the same of advertsisng your problems makes them worse because i believe in suffering and dealing with my own to make me stronger. and the fact i know no one else will truly care. the second stanza is how its blue to even be a someone and you become public where everyone knows you and everything about you. u become a mear specimen, just as a frog. The rest appeared slightly irrelavent to me. i also noticed its written in a meter of AABCD

[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"A Young African Painter on Seeing His Works" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phillis Wheatley asks how the artist gets his or her inpiration. She could be talking to herself or to an actual painter, I think both. At the same time she points out the beauty of the works and the srtuggles the artist had gone through. I enjoyed this poem becuase of the questions she asked and who they were directed to as well as the thoughts it encourages. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eileen Toribio

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kaira Brickhouse <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"On Being Brought From Africa to America" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phillis Wheatley <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This caught my attention because from a previous lesson in African American history class we learned that of course Phillis was a famous African American poet who taught herself how to read and write but unlike other slaves she thought that slavery was a good thing and was beneficial to the Africans.This poem is captivating because it shows her point of view through a poem: "Twas mercy bought me from my Pagan land," she believed that God, being the higher deity that he is, was the reason for slavery. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america/

Tim Carlin "Annabel Lee" Edgar Allan Poe I truly love this poem, and most of Poe's works, because they all reflect a period in his life and deeply represents the feelings of a tortured man. Poe tells the story of his water dwelling love Annabel Lee and her death. No one approves of this love but he doesn't care due to the fact they protest out of jelosey about the purity of their love. Poe's poetry is extreamly connected emotionally and he also provides a wide range of mediums such as story telling. (I would recommend The Fall Of The House Of Usher ) []

[] John Keats Marshae Hyman

Although this poem is short, I like that it's the way it is. It has a simplicity to it. I also like the meaning of the poem. It means that true beauty or nature is never lost, it only gets better, it also helps cover up the ugliness from our own mistakes in the human race.

[] Meghan O'Donnell

this poem is wonderful and dark and it creeps into your soul. at first you think he is appreciating nature but in the end you find its really nature scoring against him. he is not enough for nature to look at him happily smiling.