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    Thoreau Metaphors

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    Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist thinker who decided to live next to a pond for a while and write a book that most current day high school students despise. However, some of the lessons hidden in his abstract metaphors and confusing similes still hold weight today. One of the main focuses of Walden was to show readers that they can live off of the bare minimum and do not need fancy technology to live. His life at Walden Pond proved this notion. While many people may have read…

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    Henry David Thoreau, an unconventional Romantic writer, uses his experience at Walden Pond to decipher the significant elements of life. Through his time spent in solitude, he ponders upon personal development and wishes to “live deliberately” and simply. Thoreau’s idea of living simply and reflecting on the important things in life allows him to realize that society is filled with a myriad of detrimental matters, including the prominent materialistic mindset, unnecessary distractions including…

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    At one point in an individual’s life, they have likely fallen prey to the standards and expectations set upon them by society. In a world where being exposed to the opinions of others on a daily basis has become a commonality between most, it is seemingly impossible to escape this fate of conformity; however, certain individuals may have the capability of breaking free from this strong grip of societal influence through a nonconformist movement known as transcendentalism. While the rest of…

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    Throughout Salva's personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader. Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was…

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    Transcendentalism is a literary and philosophical movement based on the idea that a spiritual reality transcends the empirical and scientific. Due to it’s focuses on the ideals of nature, nonconformity, and individualism, it is also known as the Modern Renaissance which began in the early 1800’s and ended in the 1860’s. Transcendentalists were critics of their contemporary society because of its unconformity thinking and urged people to find their relation in the universe. Despite the fact that…

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    In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Nature,” he uses a plethora of metaphoric images and symbolism to draw the reader head first into his ideas and assumptions about life, beauty, and spiritualism. Emerson rests on the use of physical images in this essay to describe the need for spiritualism and the importance of communing with nature, rather than relying on the hope of a one true God or a Holy Trinity. Emerson, at least in this essay, seems to believe that imagery and spiritualism are even more…

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    There were many readings in this module and there but only three are getting compared in this essay. They are “Self-Reliance”, “Civil Disobedience”, and “Young Goodman Brown”. In these readings the main points that are getting compared are the objectives, writings, and the social implications. All of these stories will help us answer the questions by comparing them to each other and explaining the meaning behind each story. “Self-Reliance” is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which was…

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay

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    For man to have faith in himself is the only thing keeping him from achieving peace. This can be seen in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance”. Throughout the essay Emerson argues for everyone to be authentic to themselves and to not conform to society. Emerson also believes that man should be nonconformists and he believes they should be true to themselves. Although Emerson portrays many different themes throughout his essay, his overall message is for man to be themselves. First,…

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    After reading Emerson’s ideals Transcendentalism in English Three Edited by: Dave Bean and Anne Rothacker of the American Experience, it defines Transcendentalism as an Ideology rather than a religion. In Emerson’s writings he explains this. “The transcendental law, Emerson believed, was the “moral law,” through which human beings discover the nature of God, a living spirit yet it had been the practice of historical Christianity--”as if God were dead”--...”(182). Emerson believed that…

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    In the 1800s, there were two movements of writing that reigned supreme during the period. The first was the transcendental movement in which writers mainly composed essays on the bliss of living a simple life achieved by becoming one with nature. Great writers of the period include Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and the most renowned, Ralph Waldo Emerson. The other competing movement was the American realism movement in which writers wrote about very small moments in exquisite detail. Emily…

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