Characteristics 1. Profound love of nature 2. Idealism 3. Passionate nationalism Authors 1. William Cullen Bryant 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 3. Edgar Allan Poe 2. Using the Transcendentalism resource page‚ list three characteristics of Transcendentalism. 1. Celebrated individualism 2. Intuition 3. Reverence for nature 3. How did Transcendentalists feel about nature? What did Transcendentalists feel about the inherent
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Until the 1860s‚ people of the United States as well as in Europe had been influenced by various literary movements. These included the Renaissance‚ Enlightenment‚ Romanticism‚ and Transcendentalism movements. Each movement consisted of characteristics and philosophies that molded the minds of people that were willing to follow them. However‚ the first ideology that really stimulated its followers to better themselves as well as society was Realism. In literature‚ authors would create an image of
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A transcendentalist is a person who believes that the truths about life and death can be reached by going outside the world of senses. In Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild‚ Krakauer follows the path Chris McCandless took leading to his death. Chris McCandless was a person who disappeared from the world. Based on information from different people he met‚ Chris traveled around for a mere 2 ½ years (Krakauer author’s note). He never stayed in one area for long‚ he traveled all around North America‚ but
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Profound love of nature‚ focus on the self and the individual‚ and fascination with the supernatural. Three authors of this period are William Cullen Bryant‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ and Washington Irving. 2. Using the Transcendentalism resource page‚ list three characteristics of Transcendentalism. • Reverence for nature • Celebrated individualism • Intuition 3. How did Transcendentalists feel about nature? What did Transcendentalists feel about the inherent nature of human beings (were humans inherently
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Like “Nature” there are many recurring themes of Transcendentalism in Henry David Thoreau’s piece “Walden”. In this story Thoreau begins by explaining why he went into nature. He left society to avoid consistency and to learn things about himself from nature. He wished to simplify his life to the bare minimum and to discover the only things that he needed in his life to survive. He says “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers… and lump
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Transcendentalism is the belief of the power of an individual and the importance of nature. The famed author Ralph Waldo Emerson believed in both of these parts in near totality. While another author named Jon Krakauer believed in the individual and nature but with a rather practical view of nature. Henry David Thoreau was focused nearly entirely focused on nature rather than individualism. Much like Krakauer Donovan was focuses on individualism rather than nature. This form of philosophy was most
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Emotion is described as an instinctive state of mind or the reaction someone has to an event. Reality is the state of things that actually exists or the events that actually happen. These two ideas contrast each other‚ as shown in the movements of the Realists and the Romantics and Transcendentalists. Realists wanted to portray believable events‚ where character is more important and language reflects what is spoken. Romantics and Transcendentalist relied on emotion‚ not on logic‚ and rebelled against
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these writers valued more emotions over logic and reasoning. The darker side of the scheme was highly influenced by the gothic movement in Europe. Works in the dark romantic spirit were altered by Transcendentalism‚ but did not thoroughly support the concept of Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism was more about the goodness of people. For the Romantics‚ they viewed the world as obscure‚ dark‚ and decaying. The light side of Romanticism focused more on the bond between imagination and nature. Romantics
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The ideas of romanticism‚ transcendentalism‚ and anti-slavery emerged in the nineteenth century. These ideas can be witnessed in the literature written by the writers of that time‚ prominently men. The nineteenth century’s patriarchic American society oppressed women‚ and did not expect them to be intellectuals‚ leaders‚ thinkers‚ philosophers‚ or creators. However‚ there were few women writers who overcame the challenges‚ and played significant roles in the history of American literature‚ among
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conformity made the literates of early 19th century to take a broader view of life. They blamed the societal structure and advocated a new life in woods‚ abandoning the modern life. This idea in the history of American literature is referred to as transcendentalism. Emily Dickinson‚ one of the two pillars of American poetry‚ was a prolific transcendentalist who is considered to be one of the most significant of all American poets. Sexually explicit feelings‚ and religiously subversive implications in her
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