lives. We can see how various writers‚ politics and painters talk about religion and express it in their works. In this paper such values as religion and individualism will be analyzed‚ through the words of Emily Dickinson‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emily
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publication year of Thoreau ’s Walden. Rural Hours was reissued with a new chapter in 1868‚ reprinted again in 1876‚ and then abridged by 199 pages and reissued in 1887. When critics praised Rural Hours1 and the volume sold well‚ Susan Fenimore Cooper achieved literary fame as a writer of natural history. However‚ while many of her contemporaries knew her name‚ most scholars in the 1990s know only of her father. Why this oversight in the construction of literary history?2 In 1968‚ David Jones‚ a visitor
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Stacey Gaskin American Transcendentalism Peaceful Resistance: A Transcendental Response to Abolitionism The ideals of Transcendentalism lent themselves to be ripe with social change. Transcendentalists believed the soul transcended form‚ shape‚ and color and stressed that on the inside‚ human beings are not simply male and female or black and white. To the transcendentalist‚ the soul was an androgynous‚ colorless entity. They believed truth is beyond the realms of human senses‚ but that
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literature. Henry David Thoreau is another person that Emerson inspired. Although Emerson was almost 15 years older than Thoreau was‚ they became very close friends very fast (Harris). Emerson even took Thoreau into his home for two years‚ practically making him a part of his family (Harris). Their ideas were somewhat similar‚ which originally brought them together‚ but they were also very different in many ways. Without all of the encouragement and support Emerson showed towards Thoreau and his work
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under him. 4. Loren Eiseley says he is water and one with the lives of the water 5. He hits a sandbar like any log would and rose. D. He expresses being a microcosm of streams and driftwood. 1. He feels as if he is three-fourths water. 2. Henry David Thoreau is idolized for having the insight of the Walden Pond being “animalized water”. E. Years later Loren Eiseley returns to the Platte River. 1. It is winter and the land was ice-locked. 2. The streams were frozen and covered in snow. 3. At
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“Over 25 pounds lost. But his spirit is soaring.” (Krakauer pg. 37) This quote shows that even though he suffered from malnutrition throughout his journey‚ his attitude and charisma was better than ever. Henry David Thoreau once said‚ “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” Thoreau relates to McCandless because even til the last moment he had a huge smile on his face. He also took a picture toward the end of his journey and he had the biggest smile and his attitude was radiating
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American Renaissance INTRODUCTION Also known as the New England Renaissance‚ the American Renaissance refers to a period of American literature from the 1830s to the end of the Civil War. The movement developed out of efforts by various American writers to formulate a distinctly American literature influenced by great works of European literature. Yet these novels‚ poems‚ and short stories utilized native dialect‚ history‚ landscape‚ and characters in order to explore uniquely American issues
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Love for Freedom‚ Love for Nature “Only the really young are the fearless‚ have the optimism‚ the romanticism to take unimaginable risks”-Olivia Wilde (American actress‚ producer and activist). The show Klondike was about two friends who moved to a new town‚ penniless‚ in hopes to find gold.One of the friends‚ Bryan‚ is murdered early on. The story then follows the other friend‚ Bill‚ and how he handles his friends death and his confrontations with puritanism and romanticism. This story draws
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Cited: Thoreau‚ Henry David‚ and Edwin Way Teale. Walden; Or‚ Life in the Woods‚. New York: Dodd‚ Mead‚ 1946. Print. Faulkner‚ William. As I Lay Dying. New York: Random House‚ 1964. Print.
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My Aim in Life Browning an English poet says‚ “The aim‚ if reached or not makes great the life”. Human beings are superior to others because they plan their lives. Sometimes this planning is short term. Sometimes it is long term. Long term planning is called aim. It is also called ambition. Aim is the target which we want to achieve‚ towards which our physical and mental abilities are focused. Life is the period which starts from the time of birth and ends
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