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Washington Irving

father of the American novel

James Fenimore Cooper

"The Devil and Tom Walker"

Thanatopsis by Bryant

The Leatherstocking Tales:

"A Rescue" is an excerpt from Deerslayer

"Rescue" homework questions

Edgar Allan Poe

your decoration is most luxurious.....

"Raven"

"Hop Frog" "Cask of Amontillado"

Henry David Longfellow

... as you become one with the earth.

"A Psalm of Life" "The Children's Hour"

Oliver Wendell Holmes

the wizened man and the younger one:

Mr. Scott Christensen's "Thanatopsis" 9-Block

Organizer of ideas & 2 questions

Death --a common theme for all eras:

BlueOysterCult "DontFearTheReaper" OfficialAudio

Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

"Dust In the Wind" by Kansas

"When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver

"Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

James Russell Lowell

Stanza on Freedom

the younger man:

Old Ironsides

The Ballad of the Osterman

and the older man:

ballad of oysterman vimeo art

"Chambered Nautilus"

James W. C. Pennington

"Escape: A Slave Narrative"

John Greenleaf Whittier

the younger version and the elderly one

"Snowbound"

"Maud Muller"