The romantic time period was when writers focused on the beauty of nature. Author Henry David Thoreau, a transcendentalist writer during the romanticism time period appreciated nature and one's feelings. In Thoreau’s essay “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience” he represents many different transcendentalism tenets throughout his works.
Henry David Thoreau had a very simple view on life, after he graduated college, Harvard University, Thoreau had got a job that would be able to provide him with enough profit to meet his financial needs. He did not believe in a materialist world full of wealth. Later on in live Thoreau moved to a pond where he then began his life personally with his love for the “beauty of nature”. His personal experiences lead to reflect his view on transcendentalism, a simple kinda life. Thoreau’s personal experiences then lead him to become very important and successful in the romantic time period.
In Thoreau’s essay “Walden” he expresses transcendentalism by explaining that God is everything and God made nature. In …show more content…
Thoreau expresses this by saying, “ Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward” (“Civil Disobedience” 29-32). No one should ever have to reject his or her consents for the government. Also through uses his words by explaining that we as a society should not learn lessons neither from the government nor from the laws, the essay “But if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn” (“Civil Disobedience”
Henry David Thoreau had a very simple view on life, after he graduated college, Harvard University, Thoreau had got a job that would be able to provide him with enough profit to meet his financial needs. He did not believe in a materialist world full of wealth. Later on in live Thoreau moved to a pond where he then began his life personally with his love for the “beauty of nature”. His personal experiences lead to reflect his view on transcendentalism, a simple kinda life. Thoreau’s personal experiences then lead him to become very important and successful in the romantic time period.
In Thoreau’s essay “Walden” he expresses transcendentalism by explaining that God is everything and God made nature. In …show more content…
Thoreau expresses this by saying, “ Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward” (“Civil Disobedience” 29-32). No one should ever have to reject his or her consents for the government. Also through uses his words by explaining that we as a society should not learn lessons neither from the government nor from the laws, the essay “But if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn” (“Civil Disobedience”