Characteristics of Transcendentalism are RIGHT HERE. Copy this down. / Sense knowledge is unreliable, as in, one cannot trust the 5 senses to really know anything. / All reality is in the long run spiritual. / The only apt instrument for contacting the world outside is the “mind”.
By the mind, they do not mean the brain, but a special faculty which puts them immediately in touch with truth without any other aid or contact. / All reality is One. (This Oneness is called God or the Oversoul).
There is no distinction between God, men, and things for they are all participants of the One. / Valued Individuality, finding your own relation to the universe. Self reliance is important. / We should live close to nature, for it is our greatest teacher. Nature is everything, and understanding its "language" can bring us closer to God. In other words, if you want to be close to God, go sit out in nature for awhile.
Poem 1: Analyze poem 1’s Transcendentalist characteristics
Poem 2: Analyze poem 2’s Transcendentalist characteristics
Poem 3: Analyze poem 3’s Transcendentalist characteristics
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Transcendentalism: WRITE the characteristics of Transcendentalism down in the FORMAT of a CHART so that you can ANALYZE the poems for Transcendentalism. / The ParkThe prosperous and beautiful
To me seem not to wear
The yoke of conscience masterful,
Which galls me everywhere.
I cannot shake off the god;
On my neck he makes his seat;
I look at my face in the glass,
My eyes his eye-balls meet.
Enchanters! enchantresses!
Your gold makes you seem wise:
The morning mist within your grounds
More proudly rolls, more softly lies.
Yet spake yon purple mountain,
Yet said yon ancient wood,
That night or day, that love or crime
Lead all souls to the Good.
Characteristics of Transcendentalism are RIGHT HERE. Copy this down. / Sense knowledge is unreliable, as in, one cannot trust the 5 senses to really know anything. / All reality is in the long run spiritual. / The only apt instrument for contacting the world outside is the “mind”.
By the mind, they do not mean the brain, but a special faculty which puts them immediately in touch with truth without any other aid or contact. / All reality is One. (This Oneness is called God or the Oversoul).
There is no distinction between God, men, and things for they are all participants of the One. / Valued Individuality, finding your own relation to the universe. Self reliance is important. / We should live close to nature, for it is our greatest teacher. Nature is everything, and understanding its "language" can bring us closer to God. In other words, if you want to be close to God, go sit out in nature for awhile.
Poem 1: Analyze poem 1’s Transcendentalist characteristics / He is annoyed by shallow, beautiful, and rich people because they do not have a conscience. They value what they can see and touch and own, their “gold”, but these are all “lies” and do not teach them anything. / The woods lead all souls to the good, because everything is spiritual. / His “god” is on top of his neck, in other words, his own head/mind is his god. / He sees god when he see his own eyeball, they are one being. The “good” that all souls are lead to is the Oversoul, so all Souls become one in this. / The purple mountain and ancient woods speak to him, and to all souls, leading them into the “Good”.