Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Mesmerizing Perspective of American Literature: Throughout history literature has shaped the substructure of America. From earliest contact of explorers like Christopher Columbus to writers of today’s works in the 21st century. American literature starting with Puritan culture, holds an array of different writers, styles, viewpoints, and inspiration. American literature has set past and present standards, broken barriers, and peregrinate from most prospects by transcending veracity and…

Search for Truth Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.” Would you go as far to leave society in search of the meaning of life? Would you go live in the essence of nature in search of a transcendent reality outside of human experience? The movement of Transcendentalism emphasize that the study of nature enables individuals to form a connection with a transcendent reality. With this connection, all will be revealed as…

Feed, by M. T. Anderson, is a science fiction novel set in the future, about 100 years ahead of present day. The cast resided in the United States while it was crashing to its demise, unbeknown to the population. In this dystopian country almost all of the citizens have ‘feeds’, an advanced style of the internet, implanted directly into the user’s brain. It has become such a necessity to life that if someone were to live without the feed, they would be seen as an outcast. Feed follows a group of…

transcendentalism, and realism created a whole new aspect to the American voice. American literature’s universal themes of individualism, self-reliance, and slavery help create the uniqueness of the American voice. The birth of transcendentalism from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau started an overall movement of individualism. The desire to reform society and education, and the traditional morals of the…

Throughout human history, different era’s have developed among societies, progressing mankind towards what it currently is today. Characterized by their many different newfound ideologies, these era’s show growth in the ability to think, act, and feel both as an individual, and also as a society. Topics such as religion, government, the economy, and philosophy were all stated, contested, and then evolved repeatedly, defining what people were like all throughout the different time periods. Two…

Robert Frost is a well-known highly acclaimed poet world-wide. During his lifetime, he obtained more than seventeen honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and England, and receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for his works. When Frost passed he was the most popular and famous American poet of the century, a cultural icon, and an esteemed literary figure of great influence (Bloom, Bloom 's Major Poets: Robert Frost 14). Frost’s life illustrates the reasoning…

Transcendentalist thinking flourished in the nineteenth century and inspired many philosophers and literary writings. Transcendentalist believe that organized religion and society corrupted people and made them impure. The belief was that when a person chose to free themselves of a specific rule set that they would become spiritually and mentally free and independent. Transcendentalist believed that people were good and that everyone has a purpose on earth. Transcendentalism took root in…

college, I made sure that whatever field I go into will be one where I can offer some sort of usefulness to those around me. From a young age, I made it a lifelong goal of mine to be helpful to whoever I can offer it to. This particular quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks to me on a level that I can relate to. I believe it is sometimes hard to look back on your life and come…

Given the library’s availability, I read Henry Seidel Canby’s biography, expecting to learn about Walt Whitman’s childhood, family, and experiences that led him to write Leaves of Grass. The overall assessment of Canby’s book is that it is fair. Canby is frequently wordy, and at least the first third of the book is rather boring because one feels as if he is skimming through Whitman’s life. The photos are interesting, but Canby should have included a time line because he describes events without…

Henry was a good carpenter and farmer. He was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, MA. Thoreau attended school at Harvard College (now Harvard University). He graduated college in 1837. In the 1840s he began writing poetry and he was mentored by Ralph Waldo Emerson. A few years later Thoreau started his life in the woods a place two miles South of Concord called Walden Pond. His love for nature was really exposed while he was living in the woods. Henry enjoyed having peace most of the time. He…