The Transcendentalist

characteristics at the forefront of society. Although the Transcendentalist movement has since ended, key characteristics and beliefs of the movement still heavily influence our modern music, culture, and film. Transcendentalist ideas are prevalent in popular culture such as music. In Tupac Shakur’s song, “Keep Ya Head Up”, he says: [...]I think it's time to kill for our women/ Time to heal our women/ be real to…

select few who is addicted to technology. One of the Transcendentalist activity was to not use technology for one day. Although I suffered some sort of withdrawals, such as trying to use my phone to escape an awkward enc ounters in an elevator, I was able to be confident and not make strange noises and pull out of the elevator. Simplicity also made me notice things that I would have never seen, such as in the long lunch line where I usually check my phone to see my treacherous grades on skyward,…

“Nature is the national past, the basis of the national identity, an infinite source of moral regeneration, and guarantee of the democratic constitution,” (Opie 199). The picturesque and sublime aesthetic approaches to landscapes became foundational in American culture. America in its entirety is a melting pot, the culmination of other cultures into one country. However, Europeans were among the first to develop and colonize North America. Consequently, many European artists, poets, writers, and…

Transcendentalism. He becomes a changed man through his rejection of society and his journey to learn more about nature and himself. Transcendentalism was a movement during the early to middle years of the nineteenth century. The movement was in response to the Puritanical culture, which offered strict control. For Transcendentalists, a government or religion exercising control was abhorrent. Transcendentalists rebelled against everything “ordinary” and rejected common ideas and practices.…

talked about and related to six main subjects of what The Transcendentalist believed. Their main ideas and beliefs were to simplify life, the appreciation of nature, being self-reliant, gaining the truth through the experience of life, social protesting, and the belief in the spiritual world through nature. These subjects have opened the eyes of several people and have made a large impact on todays society. However, while these stories have impacted the lives of several individuals, they…

Transcendentalist is a philosophy that was started in the early 19th century. Walt Whitman, Ralph Emerson, and David Thoreau are some of the more popular writers of this movement. Emily Dickinson was born during the middle of this movement. Many people call her a transcendentalist writer. Others think that since Dickinson was influence by some of the writers of this time period, the ideas of transcendentalism just reflected in her own work. The question still remains, “Are people supposed to…

America after the American and Industrial Revolution. The philosophical movement expressed and reformed a new way of ideas that changed the way man understood their beliefs, along with knowing where their place is in the world while the society was changing. Transcendental philosophy as well saw that nature presented a way to free the mind and make a connection between the self and the spirit. Transcendentalists embraced the Romantic concept of potentiality in the individual, specifically the…

During the 1800's, transcendentalism grew with the help of Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. They expressed their beliefs through many different types of writing including poems, essays and books. Very few people understood transcendentalism due to it complexity. Transcendentalism was an American literary, political and philosophical movement. Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman were important transcendentalists. The belief of nonconformity was an essential role in the transcendentalist movement; it…

Chris McCandless was a true modern transcendentalist, his story ended tragically but throughout his story, he showed how he progressed as a transcendentalist. Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, tells the story of Chris, starting from his adolescence years to his final days on the bus. Chris met many people who helped shape him even more as a transcendentalist and made his choice to leave his old life behind worth it. Gallien was one of the first people Chris met when starting his life. He…

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “ All life is an experiment… The more experiments you make the better”() With like minded thinkers such as Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller in the helm of the nineteenth century, Transcendentalist was formed. In Emerson’s essay Self Reliance, the term trandsentalist was first used. Transcendentalists tenants believed in a complex universe of relationships. Transcendentalists believe the universe is held together by a man’s relationships with God,…