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    Write an essay in which you explore the interplay of imagination and the human experience in Romanticism. Composers in the Romantic era challenged the constraints of a society upheaved by events such as the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution‚ which they perceived to be devoid of meaning. They hence championed that the individual should embrace a relationship involving the interplay of the imagination with the human experience of nature and of emotion. Composers such as Samuel Coleridge

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    through the song talking about the social‚ environmental‚ and physical issues of the world. Michael explains how the world used to be then transits to how it is now. There are a myriad of ways that the “Earth Song”‚ follows the principles of transcendentalism. To begin‚ Michael starts the song with how the Earth was before. For example‚ “what about sunrise?”‚ describes a piece of nature’s beauty that had once been clear. Michael continues the song and describes rain and fields. This could imply that

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    unexplored realms of the mind. They want everyone to look within themselves and not follow the word of what the preachers were saying when it came to spiritual insights. Transcendentalist were very influential when it came to writers who created American Literature‚ that separated them away from everyone

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    Melanie Milam Honors English II Mrs. Nelson 2 April 2014 Transcendentalism; Positive or Negative Transcendentalism is a social and philosophical movement that taught five tenets of how to live life. Those tenets being; Everything reflects the divine soul‚ God is in nature and man‚ use your intuition to relate to God and nature‚ be self-reliant and express your individualism‚ and be spontaneous and seize the day. Thoreau and Emerson reflect all of these tenets in their poems‚ and they’re shown

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    famous preachers of transcendentalism‚ an ideology that formed after the intellectual period. Emerson and Thoreau were authors who wrote about the concept and Fuller was an influencer of the cause and an early pioneer for feminism. Sal Khan is the author of this article. His audience is students who come to his website to learn. Like the last bibliography‚ the standpoint of Khan is from a teacher’s perspective so it is unbiased and purely for educational purposes. Transcendentalism came from a philosophy

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‚ one of the most important German writers‚ was born in 1749 and died in 1832. the author passed over the German literary romanticism and was a significant figure of the Germanic Classicism. One of his major works is Faust‚ on of the most interesting stories that the modern literature ever saw; this story is divided in two parts. The first part shows Dr. Faust as a character who laments his condition‚ his boring life‚ because even after studying most fields of sience‚ such

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    21 April 2013 Transcendentalism in Modern America America has always been a different type of country; from the day it fought the British in 1776 to the consumerist America of today. It broke the norm of having a monarch who consolidated power‚ and instead gave that power to the people. These very important pieces of American history helped spark the transcendentalist movement‚ as it was the first literary movement in the United States. Transcendentalism‚ through the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Of the varying identities people may have‚ transcendentalism is one that causes people to entirely change how they live their lives. For example‚ in Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris‚ who grew up privileged‚ gave away all of his possessions to live in nature. The transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century had a large impact on authors of the century. Among those‚ multiple authors from the century‚ including Hawthorne‚ Thoreau and Emerson were influenced especially in their writings.

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    Transcendentalism in modern music Transcendentalism influenced the 19th century and emphasized on the value of the individual and intuition. It was an idea that people were at their best when they we self reliant and independent. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the movements most important figure along with his main follower Henry David Thoreau. These two people were the most influential people during this movement. Transcendentalism was all about being an individual and it still endures today in modern

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