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~Transcendentalism : In The 19th Century~Transcendentalism revealed itself in the beginning of the 19th century with talented writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. These well-educated men brought such ideas as individualism, imagination, and nature to life through their works. Many writers in the transcendentalism period included such characteristics in their pieces. Some of the characteristics are spiritual well being, individualism, nature, and imagination. There are some that make these characteristics more evident than others are such as, Walden by Henry David Thoreau, I Sit and Look Out by Walt Whitman, and I Hear America Singing also by Walt Whitman. Walden by Henry David Thoreau, was a well-written piece and thoroughly explains and describes nature and the spiritual utopia that comes with it. " The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night," this explains the likeness of nature's bullfrogs to musical beauty and song. " What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another..." In response to the men who
" I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of women," Here he paints the picture of the ignored, badly treated wife by her husband, and the wicked, devious, womanizer/ seducer of innocent women. Whitman's works tell us that everyone plays a part in life. I Sit and Look Out describes a dark, sad, corrupted, sorrowful world. iness he says this and it clarifies that when one is alone in the wilderness or just solitary in general, far away from the cities, fellow humans, and busy life, he isn't farther away because of the distance there is between he and the other. Showing all that nature can bring one to a mental utopia and by making one serene can aid in the mental well rounding of a person. But when you sit back and don't make the most of your existence you tend to notice the problems a lot easier than one who was enjoying their life would. Walt Whitman uses sad words describing emotion, and just all sorts of corruption imaginable. This work of Thoreau's just describes nature, one of the characteristics that make up transcendentalism. "I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see the martyrs and prisoners. He insinuates that the mind could distance one from any other more or less than the exertion of one's legs, and that a journey far from civilization could bring two people closer together mentally than ever before. It just goes to show you that transcendentalism is an important part of American literature and without it we would not realize any of the points brought up in Whitman, or Thoreau's works. Walt Whitman was a man who could write about a subject in two opposing ways, but still is the same story in a different perspective. And that you can make your experience a good or bad one. Individualism is illustrated here by him being only that of an individual and not able to put an end to all the sorrow.
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