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2024, The Iowa Source
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Transcendentalist poet and essayist, was an unusually active speaker in the mid-19th century. He traveled the eastern half of what is now the US, giving talks in twenty states. He gave 1,500 talks in more than 300 American towns. This essay remembers the talks he gave while traveling in Iowa.
Airo International Research Journal
RALPH WALDO EMER Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem “WATER” AND "GRASS”– ONENESS OF GOD MAN AND NATURE2017 •
The present research work makes an attempt to understand, comprehend the essence of Transcendentalism with a graphic account of American literature. The object is to plan, select and co-ordinate the area of research in an intelligible and assimilable form.We can feel the divine presence within us with the help of our own intuition. Intuition is, for Emerson, like religion, matter of actual, present personal experience. Spiritualism to Emerson is the consciousness of God and not the concept given by religion. According to Emerson, the ‘intuitive’ power of man is the most important factor to feel the divine presence within us. Intuition enables the observer to see through the remoteness or ambiguity of words and things to the unifying source of all in the universe thought. So, through this intuition we can feel the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ present within us. In all the various aspects of Emerson’s life and works and also his ideas have been discussed. This ideas and thoughts were regarded to his eleven essays have been discussed in detail. In the paper, the accounts of Emerson’s life and works have been discussed. The introduction brings out the relationship between his life and works. This paper discusses the emergence of Emerson as Transcendentalist writer and thinker. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on 25th May, 1803 in Boston. His father was Reverend William Emerson and mother, Ruth Haskins Emerson. He was the second child of eight children. His father died when he was only eight years old and he was brought up by his mother and aunt, Mary Moody.
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The Heart and Mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson in World Perspective2021 •
Critical Notice of Joseph Urbas's The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Routledge, 2021).
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A READING OF THOREAU’S “WALKING” AS A TRAVEL NARRATIVE CAMILA ALVARES PASQUETTI UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA 2005 Supervising Professor: Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins This thesis analyzes Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walking,” first published after his death in 1862, with respect to the history of the United States and European travel accounts in Imperial times. Attentive reader of European nature writers and explorers, Thoreau was recalled by poets and literature writers, and also became celebrated by the field of environmental studies, being referred as founder of ecology. Thoreau’s walks in wilderness, accounted in “Walking,” contradict and at the same time endorse the means through which the United States people were running west at the time: he frequently goes in the same direction, but shows no hurry to get at any place, and calmly searches for what is “holy” along the path. Thoreau’s emphatic discourse against private property confronts the main United State’s principl...
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a “champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.” He was described as a poet among philosophers and a philosopher among poets. He was not only a transcendentalist but also the founding father of Transcendentalism. “The American Scholar” gives a concrete expression to Emerson’s philosophic system. As a theorist of aesthetic experience, he always emphasized the supremacy of poetic inspiration over mere technical skill. Emerson was a great essayist. His essays are the scriptures of thought. Emerson was the first great American who read the Hindu scriptures and was profoundly influenced by the Hindu philosophy. The lyric also brings out the Hindu influence on Emerson. The title of the poem as well as its theme is derived from the Vishnu purana. The song of Mother Earth, with which the lyric ends, has a mantric quality. The language used in this poem is very simple but dignified and musical as well.
This work begins by briefly exploring the historical, cultural, and economic factors springing up from the rise of scientific and economic materialism in the crux of capitalism. It is argued that the bourgeois value system strangled the possibility of heroic action in the public arena and thereby eliminated the poet’s ability to find a heroic figure in nineteenth century America. The focus is then shifted to the Transcendentalist movement (Emerson, Thoreau and Fuller), who fear the loss of the hero as the loss of inspiration for mankind and the loss of subject matter for poets. The works and ideas of Emerson are interpreted as an attempt at inspiring individuals in the public to step forth into the spotlight of Western society in the hopes of counteracting the trends and forces in modernity that render the metropolitan citizen ineffectual and complacent. Thoreau’s experiments in Walden and civil disobedience are examined in the light of early efforts to find venues of political action in the private life of the everyday man as a possibility for heroism. Fuller is sketched as the prototype for modernized vates or prophet as poet/hero. It is argued that Fuller brings to life the dual role of hero and poet via the social activism she attempted in her use of the press in order to make the public aware of the ills in society as a means of mobilization and serving as an apocryphal propaganda. The extent to which each individual succeeded and/or failed is also to be described.
Immersion in the poetry of life and nature secures contact unavailable through detached analysis and observation. The sublime, sacred, and holy lie in intimate experience for Thoreau, and the path from detached observation to immersive contact is a rewarding one for him -- and should be for us, we well.
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