Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Fenimore Cooper are both well-known writers from the 1800 's. Emerson was a Transcendentalist poet, he would go around giving lectures and those lectures turned into his essays which then became his well know poem Nature. One the other hand, James Fenimore Cooper was a novelist known for his series of five novels which included The Last of the Mochicans. During these times, the work of these men were very popular and impacting, the following will depict some similarities and difference between both literary works such as their theme, imagery, and symbolism.
Emerson and Cooper both use many literary elements such as theme. In Nature, Emerson explains nature in a different and detailed way, he likes to look and focus …show more content…
In both of these stories there is a lot of imagery shown but in different ways. There are types of imagery that can be used that will reflect the way the author feels and how they think, or what they see, Emerson does a good job at describing his thoughts. He compares what he thinks and how he feels about certain subjects to nature, such as, the sun, stars, and landscape. Cooper on the other hand is very clear with his imagery by using the type of imagery that explains the surroundings, “The rays of the sun were beginning to grow less fierce, and the intense heat of the day was lessened”. This sentences is as clear as it could be, describe the sun and what a person would see if they were there. It is good to use different types of imagery, regardless that it is different, a good similarity they both have is using nature as their imagery in different …show more content…
Nature is probably the one that is able to fall into this category the most. Emersion is known to link everything to the universe, he links the stars to the universe and expresses that nature itself is a whole and not individual pieces. “The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected all the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of childhood”, this quote states that if you want to see nature for what it is you will not try to figure out what it is made of. Something you can compare this to is a child, they can accept anything as it is and not question it because they have an innocent mind and are not affected by society. In The Last of the Mohicans, does not have as much symbolism as Nature does, but it definitely does have it somewhere along the lines. For instance, the title itself is used as a symbol, it symbolizes that represents the population of Indians dying out. Symbolism appears even in the most unsought of places, one just has to be aware and analyze carefully, and this element is very important and plays a part in each
Emerson and Cooper both use many literary elements such as theme. In Nature, Emerson explains nature in a different and detailed way, he likes to look and focus …show more content…
In both of these stories there is a lot of imagery shown but in different ways. There are types of imagery that can be used that will reflect the way the author feels and how they think, or what they see, Emerson does a good job at describing his thoughts. He compares what he thinks and how he feels about certain subjects to nature, such as, the sun, stars, and landscape. Cooper on the other hand is very clear with his imagery by using the type of imagery that explains the surroundings, “The rays of the sun were beginning to grow less fierce, and the intense heat of the day was lessened”. This sentences is as clear as it could be, describe the sun and what a person would see if they were there. It is good to use different types of imagery, regardless that it is different, a good similarity they both have is using nature as their imagery in different …show more content…
Nature is probably the one that is able to fall into this category the most. Emersion is known to link everything to the universe, he links the stars to the universe and expresses that nature itself is a whole and not individual pieces. “The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected all the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of childhood”, this quote states that if you want to see nature for what it is you will not try to figure out what it is made of. Something you can compare this to is a child, they can accept anything as it is and not question it because they have an innocent mind and are not affected by society. In The Last of the Mohicans, does not have as much symbolism as Nature does, but it definitely does have it somewhere along the lines. For instance, the title itself is used as a symbol, it symbolizes that represents the population of Indians dying out. Symbolism appears even in the most unsought of places, one just has to be aware and analyze carefully, and this element is very important and plays a part in each