1. Geoffrey Crayon is a name used by Washington Irving in most of the publications of essays, short stories, and sketches in the "Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon" and included stories by Diedrich Knickerbocker that were all invented. Geoffrey Crayon's sketchbooks were stories that Washington Irving put together in 1820, and the sketchbook became America's first nationally successful book. Sojourner Truth was a slave in New York to a Dutch family whose name meant traveler of truth. Frances D. Gage writes about her recollection of Sojourner Truth's words in "Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage of Sojourner Truth." Truth wanted women's rights passed and become the voice of black and former slaves of upper-middle class white women. William Cullen Bryant was a major New York poet and conventional school poet in the 19th century. The rhyme scheme of this poem is iambic pentameter without rhyme or blank verse. It's a graveyard poem that basically says to become one with nature and take advantage of your life. The importance of this passage is that it is a way for William Cullen Bryant to say to the audience, live so that when you die you may die comfortably. The theme of this poem is death and living life to the fullest because when you die you can't do anything. But, because human nature does not move forward in a direct way, but with excessive action and then reaction in an undulating course, it misunderstood and abused its advantages, and became its temporal master instead of its spiritual father. Punishment came upon him. He raised the Woman more like a servant than a daughter and found himself a king without a queen. This is a passage from the essay “Woman in the Nineteenth Century,” by Margaret Fuller. Margret Fuller was one of the most intelligent transcendentalists. This passage is important because it shows her view of society that women were not equal. It is helping to argue that women are an oppressed minority/majority. The theme is the development of equality for women. She wrote this essay in a time when people's roles in society were changing due to industrialization and the women's movement was taking off because high-class white women were just as bored and intelligent as the white man. It gives a radical notion of democracy. Margret Fuller wrote this essay to achieve equality