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Standard 1: Vocabulary- The student will expand vocabulary through word study, literature and class discussion.

Skill 2: Use word meanings within the appropriate context, and verify those meanings by definition, restatement, example, and analogy.

Transcend-1.) To go beyond the range or limits of

something abstract

2.) To surpass

Anti-Transcendentalists focuses on:

  • The dark side of man
  • Nature's indifference to man's existence
  • Man and Nature are sinful
  • Focuses on sadness and guilt- the darkness of the human spirit

Transcendentalism Vs Anti-Transcendentalism

By Sarah Stephens

Focuses of These Stories

The Scarlet Letter- The cruelness of community

Moby Dick- Man vs a Whale (nature)

"The Telltale Heart"- the darkness and madness of man

Anti-Transcendental Stories

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

"The Telltale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe

Anti-Transcendentalism

How Transcendentalism would be interpreted today

The Shipwreck of SS Austria on 13 September 1858. Image [Painting] retrieved from http;//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/cc/SS_Austriashipwreck.jpg

References

Anti-Transcendentalist Authors

Literary movement of the 19th Century that rejects Transcendentalist beliefs.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Herman Melville
  • Edgar Allen Poe
  • American Transcendentalism. http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/images/p-authors.gif.
  • Madam. (November 14, 2011). Transcendentalism Commercial. Retrieved from www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpK_TCHOwbM.
  • 1858. "The Shipwreck of SS Austria". http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/cpmmons/3/3c/SS_Austia_shipwreck.jpg.

By Madam

Transcendentalist Writers

Focuses of These Stories

Transcendentalist Stories

  • "Nature"- Man's dependence on the beauty and tranquility of nature
  • Walden- Renouncing Society and living out in the woods in order to enhance spirituality
  • "Song of Myself"- Man finding himself in nature
  • "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

Transcendentalism

Anti-Transcendentalism

  • Man Vs Nature
  • Nature is indifferent

to man's existence

  • Explores the darker side of humanity and explores sin
  • Nature and man are

connected

  • Nature is a benevolent

force

  • The way to understand

people is by studying nature

  • Man is basically good
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Walt Whitman

Transcendentalism

Image [photograph] obtained from http;//transcendentalism-legacy-tamu.edu/images/p-authors.gif

Transcendentalism is a literary movement in the United States in the late 1820s to 1830s. Transcendentalism is the belief that

  • man and nature are connected.
  • the individual is stronger than society
  • relationship with God is personal
  • rejects the attachment to materialistic belongings
  • nature is a benevolent force
  • Nonconformity
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