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- student of Emerson's
- spent a night in jail for refusing to pay taxes
- individual conscience, your own moral compass
- an avid abolitionist
- Emerson believes humans do not truly value nature
- written between
1832 and 1840
- major theme: spirituality
(that true spirituality is found in nature vs. the church)
- belief in the importance of the individual
- refused to pay taxes to government that condoned the institution of slavery
- did not agree with the Mexican American War
- advocated non-violent acts of political resistance
- builds a small cabin by Walden Pond, lived there for more than two years
- Thoreau experiments with "essential living" (studying the natural world, living simply, and seeking truth in himself.
- mixture of philosophy, autobiography, and
meditation
-the father of Transcendentalism
- one of the greatest writers of the 19th century
- formed the Transcendentalist club with Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and others
- strict religious ideals of Puritans
- logic and skepticism of Rationalists
- an emerging American democracy and culture
- first poem book Leaves of Grass
- multiple editions until his death in 1892
- incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writing
- A fancy word for a simple idea
- criticized for his "vulgar" writing
- America's first poet,
"poet of democracy"
- an interconnected universe
“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
[From the preface to Leaves Grass]”
- volunteer nurse in The Civil War
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
"A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven."
“If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good help to you nevertheless
And filter and fiber your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop some where waiting for you”
- accepted deism and various religions as equal
- The Civil War
- Reconstruction Era
- ideas had spread and become part of American identity, movement less necessary
- transition to Realism