The transcendentalist perspective on life, as defined by Walt Whitman and Durand through their creative and artistic mediums, is an eternal and unbroken cycle that is void of a strict beginning or an absolute end. ... The illusion that both are separate is a misconception that Walt Whitman seeks to rectify through the sixth poem by stating that "all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses" (Line 37). ... Immersion into the natural world is a central part of Transcendentalist philosophy which both Durand and Whitman exhibit. ... " Here, Whitman uses the grass to represent a re...

• Word Count: 799
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Finally, Walt Whitman, who wrote in free verse about topics that no one else was writing about, believed in equality and pushed for democracy and individualism. Writing in the Nineteenth Century, Romantics such as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman had radical beliefs about the individual's role in society for their time period. ... Very different from the transcendentalists was Walt Whitman, who challenged societal practices with the w...

• Word Count: 1963
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Matthiessen's American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, written in 1941. Matthiessen was influential in determining the canon of American writers from this period: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. ... Walt Whitman Whitman's poem, "Song of Myself," from "Leaves of Grass" is often considered the most stunningly original poem ever written by an American. ...

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many aspiring authors, such as Poe, Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson, found notoriety with their writings. ... Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe became well-known advocates of Romantic ideals. ...

• Word Count: 1786
• Approx Pages: 7
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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

• Word Count: 9971
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate