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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson complains that mainstream prayer practices are petty and self-serving. He also complains that they presuppose a patron-client relationship with God. People often use prayer as an...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
While Emerson would be pleased at elementary education's advancement, he would say there is more to do to create a system of formal elementary instruction that maximizes student choice. Emerson was...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson uses personification in the introduction of his essay to imbue the era in which he lives with uniquely human characteristics: "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the...
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Self-Reliance
Emerson - the transparent eyeball. A history of pantheism and scientific pantheism by Paul Harrison. I am nothing! I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or...
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Self-Reliance
You are probably referring to the following recommendation, which is widely quoted online and attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism was a movement in the late 1820s and 1830s. The ideas are not religious in nature, but an understanding of life and how everyone is connected in the world. Key concepts of the...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, the poet praises the natural world. Nature is Emerson's first book, and his love and respect for nature and the guidance he believes mankind can find in the...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson stands among the famous American Poets. he is also known as a American Romantic Poet. most of his poems are written about American Patriotism. In his poems, he has given the...
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Walt Whitman
Scholars agree that Walt Whitman felt inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's stated need for America to have its own American poet. Emerson saw all of America as one great poem that was left "unsung"...
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The American Scholar
On August 31, 1837, when the United States of America was still a very young nation, Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a speech before the Phi Beta Kapa Society at Cambridge. That speech became the...
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Transcendentalism
One element of Transcendentalism evident in the passage is the strong relationship that Emerson has with nature. It is evident in the way he sees nature as having constructed a path of...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
In "The Poet," Emerson writes: For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The...
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The Divinity School Address
Emerson's address is quite radical in its assertion that the source of God and morality is not a structure outside of the individual. Unlike the Unitarian belief of the time, Emerson did not see...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this speech, Emerson denounces both politicians and ordinary people. He says that they are both complicit in the evils of slavery and that they have shown their lack of moral fiber. Emerson is...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Sursum Corda" is a short work that highlights the power of the Holy Spirit and its intents and comings and goings as the wind. The poem is one stanza of eleven lines....
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Transcendentalism
I don't see this as the easiest question in the world to answer. On face value, it is not that difficult. Emerson is probably the thinker with whom the movement is strongly associated. He was...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The concept is rooted in Emerson's readings of eastern philosophies such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Advaita Vadanta school of Hindu philosophy. In addition, Emerson further elaborated the concept...
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Walt Whitman
I think that one of the most leading ideas that emerges from Whitman's letter is his passionate belief in Emerson's notion of a defining American literary tradition emerging. Whitman believes in...
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Self-Reliance
I think that it becomes clear that Emerson is writing in a time period where conformity and the desire for individuals to submerge their own distinctive identity with that of the masses was the...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.brainythoughts.com/ebooks/Emerson_Compensation.pdf http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/rwemerson/bl-rwemer-essays-3.htm Both texts have a paragraph begining with: "This law...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
To begin, one must be able to identify an imperative sentence. An imperative sentence is one which gives advice or expresses a request. Paragraph thirteen of Emerson's Education, written by Ralph...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is an essay in which Emerson presents his typically Transcendentalist views on education, arguing against the traditional education system and broadening the term in our thinking to encompass...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
This poem, unusual in that the first-person narrator is declaring an association to beauty, is both a salute to the Rhodora’s beauty and a declaration that the narrator is of the same stuff. It...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great Transcendentalist who wrote Nature perceives in the bureaucracies of public school the "costly machinery against nature" in which the modes of education aim to save labor and expedite...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The text that I can find of this essay by Emerson gives the following in the thirteenth paragraph: Whilst thus the world exists for the mind; whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are looking for poetry by either Emerson or Thoreau which depicts examples of why their texts are considered Transcendental, you may want to look at the following poems (both poets were...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paragraph 13 of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay titled “Education” contains a number of rhetorical techniques that are effective in various ways. Examples include the following: Allusion. An one...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much as in his essay Nature, Emerson's essay on Education expresses his philosophy that the universe is composed of Nature and the Oversoul; these, in essence, are the teachers of man. It is this...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Transcendentalist, felt that the self is an autonomous spirit which acts according to universal moral laws. Located in all objects, this spiritual self develops from...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson was raised within a Calvinistic society by a father who was a Unitarian minister. Even though he was raised in a society which supported Calvinistic theology, Emerson followed his own path...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh my gosh, PLEASE don't use the term "theology" here in regards to Transcendentalism. I had to spend an entire class period convincing one of my more fundamentalist Christian students that I was...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson opens "Hamatreya" with a list of some of the first settlers of Concord — "Minott, Lee, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint." (In the version of the poem printed in 1876 in Selected Poems, the...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Certainly there are many such incidents of discovering the beauty of nature in the everyday that I could quote, but I guess if I had to pick one, it would have to be when I climbed up a mountain in...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson's protégé Henry David Thoreau had more experience and inspiration with regard to solitude as he spent so much time living in isolation and seclusion (by choice). In March...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find sentiments to that effect in both "The American Scholar" and "Self Reliance." The following excerpt from "Self Reliance" discusses the need to be true to oneself, not one's family....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
For individualism and conformity, I would start with Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance” and Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” You can find elements of individualism, nature and conformity in...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson's primary contribution to the Transcendental movement was the assertion of individual voice in all circumstances. Emerson's belief in human "transcendence," the ability to perceive and...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
In his seminal work, "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson touts the merits of rugged individualism. Conspiring against this individualism is society, which is against the manhood of all its...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basic premise of the quote is that there is a greater sense of character within the individual who is able to maintain their own sense of character and integrity in a world that might speak...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think you can extrapolate a lot of metaphors from "nurse." Two that I believe Emerson was going for are "to nurture" and "provide sustenance or entice." Emerson may have been describing schools...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concerning Emerson's views on the poet's nature and function, I can give you only a limited answer, but since no one else has answered yet, I'll give you what I can. Looking at two specific poems,...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many aspects to this essay. The one I will focus on is Emerson's idea that people should follow their own consciences rather than obeying what society tells them to do. I think that this...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing a review is not the same as writing a summary, you are correct. In a review, you must briefly tell what the work is about but more importantly, how successful the author is in conveying his...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet, according to Emerson, has to be just about everything. He has to be a seer into the soul of man, he must be an interpreter and a prophet. I know not how it is that we need an...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my mind, the primary difference between Emerson and Thoreau is the one between theory and practice. Both thinkers preached individualism in thought and rejecting the conformist ways of modern...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would suggest that their primary similarity is that both thinkers believed in the idea of individuals engaging in self- definition through their own emotional states. In his essay on Self-...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson contributed to American by influencing other writers; calling for a national literature; imbuing his writings with the ideal of spiritual harmony as opposed to the dominance of...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole point of this essay is that people need to rely on what they themselves believe and not on what society wants them to be. Included in this idea is the idea that people should not be...