Essay group 2 – note at the top of your essay whether you are answering question a or b. a) What do you see as the key disagreements between the Anti-Federalists and the Federalists as found in the readings we did? Put the two sides in conversation with each other. b) In what ways do the Federalists and Tocqueville agree and/or differ on how to achieve good government in America? Do they contradict each other, complement each other, or a mixture of both?

What is the most positive change that has taken place?    

In “The Prairies”, what are some of the images that Bryant describes that he sees / dreams about as he looks at the wilderness?

What aspect / object of nature do the two men talk about?

In “To a Waterfowl” what is the “lesson” that Bryant learns from watching the bird soar across the sky (HINT: the answer is in the last stanza [page 491] “thy” (your) refers to the bird; so who might the “He” who guides the bird’s flight refer to? What does Bryant say about this being)?

In “Thanatopsis”, what comfort does Bryant give to the man (or woman) that may “fall” (a.k.a. die) “Unnoticed by the living–and no friend / Take note of thy departure”?

What do the two men talk about initially and compare? 

Where would Rip often go and what would he do when he is driven from his house by his wife’s criticism?

In William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”, what are the various benefits for the man (or woman) who, because of his (or her) love of Nature “holds communion with her visible forms”? 

In the excerpt from “The Last of the Mohicans”, what are the two men doing at the beginning of the story?