Transcendentalism

Nature is a continuing theme in Old English that reflects and explains certain observations in everyday life. Nature is used as a way to validate faith in occurrences in the natural world that are seemingly only explainable by a higher power. The use of nature to explain certain feelings and actions strategically allows an acceptance of hardships in life. Many poems have been written using nature as a backbone of faith. Poems such as “The Story of Caedmon”, “The Dream of the Rood” and “The…

In life everyone hits a blockage, whether it is that someone does not fit in, feel like one does not belong, or even that one might feel like they are not living the life they are supposed to be living. Some people feel as if they never fit in, in the place they were put, so they feel the need to escape from all that they have in their life and leave everything and everyone behind to get away. A way where a person had to escape is Chris McCandless/Alex Supertramp in Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer…

There once was a man named Henri De Lubac. He went all the way back to trace the origin of the 19th century attempts to construct humanism apart from God. There were four people that De Lubac focuses on in his writing that are considered to be contemporary thinkers. Those contemporary thinkers include: Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, and Comte. In the book The Drama of Atheist Humanism: The Search for New Man by Henri De Lubac, he discusses where each of these people stand and what has them on the…

James Truslow Adams is responsible for coining the term “American Dream” in his book The Epic of America (Source E). Some may find it surprising that the book was published in 1931 because the idea of America’s unique, opportunist culture had been prominent since the country’s founding. However, several creators utilized this idea for central themes in their literary works long before it had a name. One of these people was F. Scott Fitzgerald, who published The Great Gatsby in 1925. In The Great…

First of all, I would like to talk about briefly the character Zarathustra for Nietzsche by referring his influential work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The book mainly includes the made-up journey and the philosophical speeches of Zarathustra. The journey starts when Zarathustra was in the age thirty, he left his home and went into the mountains. After his personal experiences in the mountains as a hermit, he wanted to return to humanity to spread the wisdom that he has attained. For many readers,…

Asrar-e-Khudi1 or The Secrets of the Self2 was published in 1915, the first philosophical poetry of Sir Mohammad Iqbal3. Iqbal describes his philosophy of "Self" or "Ego4" as “Khudi5”which is the divine spark present in every human beings. A great journey of transformation is vital to apprehend this celestial spark. A similitude of this journey is the relationship of fragrance and seed. Every seed has potential for the fragrance in it. However, to reach the fragrance, the seed…

William Wordsworth is an English poet who lived from 1770 to 1850, he was born on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the northwest of England, he is considered as one of the greatest poet in the romantic era, which is also called the Romanticism, He was an early leader of it, Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, it emphasis upon the power and terrors of the inner imaginative life. The…

Pangloss is Candide's mentor and primary guide. He's the knowledge and worldview source for Candide. However, His effect is completely the opposite of the typical mentors. Pangloss knows little about the structure of the world since he lived only an idle life inside a castle. Candide has never had a direct experience with the outside world. Therefore, he without any question believes in Pangloss’s philosophy. Candide is incredibly gullible, faithful, idealistic, and innocent to an extreme level.…

American Romanticism is a literary and philosophical movement that was primarily in the 1800’s and was a response to the enlightenment. Some key things American Romanticism focuses on is nature, individual, imagination, insight, and intuition. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are two famous American Romanticism poets from the 1800’s that were very influential. While Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are different in the ways they view society, they are similar in how they value the individual…

“Life is a choice, and determining what to choose shows self-reliance, the dignity of the doer as well as the essence of human right in running life”, this is according to R.B Edi Pramono. The Road Not Taken was a poem written by Robert Frost (1875-1963). The poem uses the two roads as metaphor, for it symbolizes the choices we do in our lives, like when we arrive in the point that we have to choose between two things. The poem uses a rhyme scheme, written in the first person, and is composed of…