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5 Results for Leaves Of Grass

1. Excerpts from Song of Myself

This excerpt from Stanza I can connect to an excerpt in Stanza LII, which says "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,/ If you want me again look for me under your boot soles." This quote connects back to Stanza I because they both emphasize the original state of man that has a deep root in nature, and he uses the imagery of growing grass in this excerpt from Stanza LII to connect to the idea in Stanza I that he grew from the soil as well. ... " "The smoke of my own breath, Echoes, ripples, and buzzed whispers...loveroot, silkthread crotch and vin...

  • Word Count: 950
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Walt Whitmans Style

Walt Whitman was a follower of the two Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. He believed in Emerson and Thoreau's Transcendentalist beliefs. Whitman believed that individualism stems from listening to one's inner voice and that one's life is guided by one's intuition. Wh...

  • Word Count: 617
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

3. American Scholar

Ever the wind blows; ever the grass grows." ... When I go hiking there is so much around me that I simply cannot take in; the way the trees move when the wind blows, the pattern on the leaves, the mosaic of roots by my feet. ...

  • Word Count: 903
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Writers of the Transcendentalist Period

Transcendentalism blossomed during the 1800s with the help of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson. They were transcendentalists who expressed their beliefs through writings from poems to essays and they believed that "the individual was at the center of the universe" (Prent...

  • Word Count: 909
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

5. Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson

Transcendentalism blossomed during the 1800s with the help of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. Emily Dickinson was part of Realism-most people like Realism because of the way ideas were expressed. Emerson and Thoreau were Transcendentalists who expressed their beliefs through writings f...

  • Word Count: 1042
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School
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