Across
- 3. Suited to one’s needs or nature; agreeable
- 5. The government itself, which is only the mode by which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it
- 10. To spread through every part of
- 11. To violate a command or law
- 13. Thoreau was someone who spent much of his life writing and observing nature, devoting only a minimum of time to earning a wage
- 16. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of times
- 19. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string
- 22. Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece
- 24. The Tide Falls Darkness settles on roofs and walls, but the sea in the darkness calls and calls; the little waves, with their soft white hands, efface the footprints in the sands, and the tide rises, the tide falls
- 25. Short accounts of personal incidents
- 27. Disturbance of the emotions; agitation; uneasiness
- 29. Into his darker musings, with a mid and healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware
- 30. Henry was someone who became a published poet, and at 15 he entered Bowdoin College in Maine
Down
- 1. Acting with sudden or rash energy; hasty
- 2. People are inherently good and should follow their own beliefs, however different these beliefs may be from the norm
- 4. After summarizing each idea, note your reaction to it
- 6. Creates vivid impressions for the reader
- 7. Stressed individualism and an appreciation of nature
- 8. Abstract ideas are more appealing and easier to grasp
- 9. An intellectual movement that emphasized the dignity of the individual and advocated a simple, mindful life
- 12. The underlying message or the central idea of a work which can be stated in one sentence
- 14. Low; contemptible; wretched
- 15. Attitude toward his or her subject
- 17. A literary superstar who was born in 1794 in Cummington, Massachusetts, and began his writing career at an early age
- 18. The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would excude from them
- 20. Examine them carefully and then make judgments about their value
- 21. Whoso would be a man, be a nonconformist
- 23. In an unhurried and thoughtful manner
- 26. Emerson helped shape a new, uniquely American body of literature and is often cited as one of the most significant writers in American history
- 28. A feeling of doubt, mistrust, or uncertainty