The broken-hearted can only be mended by love just as only love can change a man's heart; enemies can become friends only through love just as only love can soften the hardest of hearts. In this way, Emerson, as a transcendentalist, portrays love as being a necessity in life; every man wishes, desires, to be loved. For this reason, the world would benefit from showing love to everyone as it causes mankind to care for others, to encourage joy in others. It is something that comes from deep within the soul and if the world experienced more love, humanity would be willing to expand their mind to accept the differences in others.
No matter how humans differ from each other, whether by the color of skin, religion, or social status, they all deserve love. In "The Transcendentalist," Emerson writes that human beings have a "great wish to be loved" (3). Every person wishes to be loved; they want to be desired and cared for. Erich Fromm describes love as the "only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." If everyone felt loved and also gave that love to everyone else, the world would be crime-free. Hate crimes, thefts, murders, and even suicides would not occur; it would be ridiculous to hurt the ones we love. People would see each other as equals-black, white, brown, red and yellow would be seen all the same as they are loved. There would be no need to prosecute those with different belief systems, the world would be willing to understand them because of the love they share; burglaries would not occur because the affluent would care enough to give those less fortunate the money they needed; there would be no killing because no one wants to kill the ones they love; and there would be no suicides because they would be loved, and to be loved, is a feeling that suppresses all depressed and melancholy feelings. Without love, the existence of humanity would be pointless, as "a life without love" (Emerson 4) is "an activity without an aim" (Emerson 4).
Like Emerson, Cummings was also a transcendentalist who believed that the "imaginative faculty in man can perceive the natural world directly". Using odd forms, distortions of syntax, and obvious nonconformity, his writings were almost romantic describing things such as love and youth. ... Cummings used nonconformist, distorted English to perfectly explain his feelings about nature and love....
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" (Prentice Hall 384). ... Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson, were one of the many people who were Transcendentalist; these writers went out of their way in society to represent their beliefs. ... He implies that one must love their job and loves to work hard because at the end they will be happy. ... Also, his works define being a Transcendentalist because they include descriptions of the deep sense of nature, human sou...
Another powerful cultural movement that took hold in America in the 1800s was the Transcendentalist Movement. ... Transcendentalists believed that evil and darkness were merely the absence of good and light. ... Indeed, Emerson is believed by many to be the cornerstone of the Transcendentalist Movement. ... Emerson's works served as a rallying point for the Transcendentalist Movement and influenced its followers a great deal. ... "The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several...
He loved nature, and his constant preoccupation was exploring the woods and ponds making detailed observations of plants and creatures. ... Hawthorne was a Dark Romantic, while Thoreau was a Transcendentalist. Dominant Traits Henry David Thoreau's dominant trait was being a Transcendentalist. ... However, the Transcendentalists were also ones to find truth in intuition however, they wanted the human to be "perfect." ... This story obviously portrayed Thoreau's love for nature and life. ...
Completely Different but still romantics The author of The Birthmark writes with an ominous tones whereas the author of Nature is a transcendentalist and writes with a happier tone. ... And Emerson's profound love of nature and belief that the supernatural exists in the story Nature makes him a sure thing when it comes to talking about the romantics. ... One author writes gothic stories of the supernatural and the other is a transcendentalist that writes of mans harmony with nature and the rays of light from other worlds. ... They fall under 3 categories in romanticism, Emerson falls u...
Thoreau was a Transcendentalist, someone who believed that society corrupts the purity of an individual. ... Nature played a role in the development of his Transcendentalist attitudes, solitude, appreciation, and dual nature. Solitude is a state of being alone, Thoreau loved being alone because it gave him time to think and wonder. ... Thoreau was a man who loved solitude, but that did not mean he did not appreciate the company of men. ... Nature played a role with Thoreau's Transcendentalist attitude. ...
On the surface there appears to be a connection between transcendentalist and the hippies from the sixties. ... Hippies used this philosophy to rationalize and justify their movement towards free love and peace. ... For all the protests and discontent, both betray and inner love and joy, and worship beauty. ... Criticized stemmed from Whitman's exaltation of the body and sexual love. Hippies had a common belief of free love. ...
The Transcendentalist movement of the 1800's emerged in the adolescence of a fledgling American society. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson, champion of the Transcendentalist movement, laid the groundwork for the movement in his eloquent essay entitled, "Self-Reliance." ... Thoreau uses the Transcendentalist philosophy to attack the state from an anti-slavery platform. ... It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. ... Here, I believe, is potentially the most damaging aspect of the Transcendentalist philosophy of individualism. ...
There is no doubt that Emily Dickinson is one of the most renowned poets of her time, recognized for the amount of genuine, emotional insight into life, death, and love she was able to show through her poetry. ... She used many transcendentalist ideas in her writing, but all mostly to show the power of intellect; a women's intellect. Dickinson showed male transcendentalist that she could obtain as much experience through her mind and writings, than actually being in the wilderness. ... She wrote about first hand experiences that she never had, transcendentalist experiences, from the in...
