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
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.
Transcendentalist Writers
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
connected
force
people is by studying nature
- 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