romance america literature calvinism refers tol the religious teachings of john calvin and his followers，calvin taught that only certain persons，the elect，were chosen by god to be saved ，and these could be saved only by god's grace calvinism forms the basis for the doctrines and practices of the huguenots，puritans，presbyterians，and the reformed american romanticism reject the heyonmly cocern the feelings and intuitions and wmotions hey affirmed the inner life of the lself and cherished strong interest in the past ， the wild，the remote the miysterious and the anscendentalism refers to the religious and philosophical doctrined of emersom hey emphasezed the importance of individual inspiration and he over-soul;and and believe the individual is divine and self-and it is the product of a combination of native american puritanism and european free verse means the rhymed or unrhymed poetry composed without paying attention to conventional rules of meter free verse 'purpose was to free themselves from the restrictions of formal metrical patterns and to recreate symbol means an act，a person，a or a spectacle that stands for sth uaually sth less palpable than the named he relationship btwn the symbol and its referent is not often one of simple allegorical symbols usually express a neater equivalenc e with what they stand for than thesymbols founnd in modern realistic fivtiontheme means the unifying point or general idea of a literary work what is the work about each literary work carries its own theme or theme king leat has many theme among which are blidness and madness
