Transcendentalism Flashcards
Spell Tra_________
Transcendentalism
Who wrote “From Nature” , “Self Reliance” , “Concord Hymn”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who said “I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, A man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and what period so ever of life is always a child.” And what aspect is it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man vs. Nature
Who said “I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of a universal being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.” What aspect is it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Over soul
Who said “The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown.” What aspect is it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and Man
Who said “Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both.” What aspect is it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man vs. Nature
You need to be open to the experience of nature to be happier
“There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide…”
Power of individual
Means you are not realizing and appreciating what you already have
Education of who you are as a person. Not just in school but in entire life
“…no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”
Kernel=seed
Seed= talent
Kernel grows to be “nourishing corn” once it is filled. That “toil”
That’s a metaphor
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.”
Power to individual
Can’t wait around for something to happen, have to make it happen
Manifest= Materialize
“Trust thyself; every heart beats to that iron string.”
Power of individual
Trust your inner voice
(Synecdoche)- part stands for a whole
“Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. …To be great is to be misunderstood…”
Power of individual
Being yourself is okay
“And fired the shot heard round the world.”
Synecdoche
Positive and natural feel
Transcendentalism
Oversoul
Universal spirit to which all beings returned after death
