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    to Transcendentalism • Emerson was truly the center of transcendentalism • His main approach to transcendentalism wais spirituality • But he did use all four elements * Individual –spiritual center of the universe * All Knowledge begins with self knowledge *Nature is a mystery and is symbolic • One must embrace and withdraw the whole world Devices used by Emerson • Metaphor • Apostrophe • Diction • Paradox • Personification The Life and Times of Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was the father

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    Emerson's Self Reliance

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    Emerson’s “Self Reliance” Christina Gailbreath October 27‚ 2012 Carla McGill AML 2000 After reading the opening paragraph of Emerson’s essay “Self Reliance”‚ I was very moved and impressed. I have always been told that Emerson was an amazing writer‚ but I had no idea how great he really was. I can take so many quotes from this essay to talk about so being limited to just picking one or two was the most difficult part for me. After careful consideration I have found two that I was moved by

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    3. Emerson conveys the message to trust yourself and your instincts. He explains that men should not flee before a hardship or an obstacle‚ such as a “revolution”‚ but that people are “guides” and “redeemers”. People should follow trust their gut and not stray from God’s path‚ but also carve their own path based on their own individual and innovative decisions. 6. Emerson compares society to a joint stock company. When one conforms to society and decides the join the majority group‚ they lose all

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    “Language” In “Language” of Emerson’s Nature‚ Emerson writes on the language that man uses and talks of how the words that one uses are inaccurate to what one is describing. Emerson believes that the languages used today do not appropriately depict the items that are being described. His belief is that all things in nature have a natural self and language tries to create a true representation of that natural thing via words and phrases‚ but Emerson states that because man is corrupt and uses these

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    me; I am part or particle of God." -Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Nature (1836) In his essay‚ "Nature"‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson describes man’s relationship to nature and to God. Early on‚ he describes himself as a "transparent eyeball." In this passage‚ he expresses his view that nature is purity. Emerson believes being in pure nature brings mankind closer to the way God intended life to be. Through nature man and God are brought together. Emerson starts with a description of one who has the ideal

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    Nature and Self Reliance

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    Artemis Fang Senior One A 24 February 2015 A Comparative Essay Between Nature and Self Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American writer and philosopher who lived during the Romantic Period in the early 1800’s. He and Henry David Thoreau laid the groundwork for Transcendentalism‚ building its core around kinship with nature‚ individualism‚ and seeing past materialism. Emerson had strong beliefs about the world we live in and wrote passionately about them. Two of his most famous essays were

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    "envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide"‚ This quote comes from Self-reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ and in Self-reliance he talks about how a person should always be himself ‚and that a person should not conform to what society wants them to be‚ also that if someone wants to be great he will be misunderstood by a lot of peoples opinions. I personally agree with most of his views‚ with the first point I mostly do agree with that if a person is trying to be someone else then they’re not going

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” In "The American Scholar‚" Ralph Waldo Emerson characterizes the nature of the American scholar in three categories: nature‚ books‚ and action. The scholar is one who nature mystifies‚ because one must be engrossed with nature before he can appreciate it. In nature‚ man learns to tie things together; trees sprout from roots‚ leaves grow on trees‚ and so on. Man learns how to classify the things in nature- which simplifies things in his mind (section

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    Around the 19th century‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson was known for being an American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist. After spending a year in Europe‚ Emerson would teach on such topics of spirituality and how it is represented as personal nature. The teachings he shares during his lectures would be transformed into essays. For many years‚ Emerson wrote in his journals that included his inner thoughts and actions. All the journals he kept‚ he would return to as a way to bundle them all up into

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    On Patience

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    “Patience” Alan Cartwright “The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know‚ what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I was never a pupil of the revered Wadsworth High School English teacher‚ Bob Frey‚ but we had become acquainted as I sat in his second period study hall. Hearing that I planned to become a teacher‚ he sought me out at graduation to advise that

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