There are several literary Periods throughout our time, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Regionalism, and others to. Today I will only focus on the literary period called Transcendentalism. I choose Transcendentalism over the other ones to explain how it advocated individualism over authority for these individuals, when the others have there own unique form as well I believe this one is the best.
Transcendentalism began around 1840 – 1860, is very focus on the person themselves, believing in themselves more than anyone else. This was created in defense of intellectualism at the time. The center core of the belief of transcendentalism is in internal goodness and positivity within people and nature. People that support this mostly believe organizations and larger companies are the ones to rot the individual themselves. There is only faith when believing in the power of the person, when …show more content…
This quote I choose explains how people that are transcendental view things, judge things and create knowledge for things from only themselves. Not someone else's opinion then or someone's perspective, strictly from the person themselves. Another quote from the poetic artist Ralph Waldo Emerson shows his interpretation of Transcendentalism, “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Right here Ralph shows that others opinions or views is something extraneous and is something very common for the common man to follow, it's easier to be a follower vs being the
Transcendentalism began around 1840 – 1860, is very focus on the person themselves, believing in themselves more than anyone else. This was created in defense of intellectualism at the time. The center core of the belief of transcendentalism is in internal goodness and positivity within people and nature. People that support this mostly believe organizations and larger companies are the ones to rot the individual themselves. There is only faith when believing in the power of the person, when …show more content…
This quote I choose explains how people that are transcendental view things, judge things and create knowledge for things from only themselves. Not someone else's opinion then or someone's perspective, strictly from the person themselves. Another quote from the poetic artist Ralph Waldo Emerson shows his interpretation of Transcendentalism, “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Right here Ralph shows that others opinions or views is something extraneous and is something very common for the common man to follow, it's easier to be a follower vs being the