Submitted by: Jewel Reventar

Submitted to: Sir. R-Jay

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Autobiography

Fireside Poets

The Autocrat of the Break-Fast table

Old Ironsides

Other poems

Of Holmes
Style of Holmes Writing

The Last Leaf

Analysis of the Poem

- Born on August 29, 1809 in Cambridge, Massachussets. - Graduated from Harvard University - Father of American Civil War veteran and U.S. supreme court justice. - American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author - Member of the Fireside Poets - Wrote Old Ironsides and BreakfastTable - Writer of the poem The Last Leaf in our book. - Died on October 7, 1894
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- Also known as Schoolroom or Household poets - A group of 19th century American poets from New England - Group of poets to rival the British poets - Henry Wadesworth Longfellow - John Greenleaf Whittier
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- Is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - First issue of Atlantic Monthly magazines and also first published on 1857 and 1858.

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- Poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in 1830. - Old Ironsides is popular name for the naval Ship in the USS Constitution - First well known poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - A poem about Protest.

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- Cacoethes Scribindi - The Last Leaf ( mah main report) - The Living Temple - The Two steams - Contentment - Daily trials of a sensitive man - The Chambered Nautilus - The Flaneur
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- Holmes Style of writing is more on occations, events. - But he can apply to any his poetic sense in any genre.

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- Is one of the most well know poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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-The poem is about an old man passes by the door of the narrator twice while hobbling with his cane. When he was younger it is said that he used to be the best man in town. But now he just wanders the streets alone and seems to mourn about all of the people he used to know who are gone. The people that he loved have long since been buried.

Submitted by: Jewel Reventar

Submitted to: Sir. R-Jay