About Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian, Nature Own Optimistic Personal not unify

About Transcendentalism Deity, good Pantheism Emerson - divine - intuition - redeem - Bible Closest Brook, failed Poe Sin Blow biblical

About Nature bible Adults Nature eyeball

About Self-Reliance Trust Truth Proverbs 3:5 says man is warned not to trust his own understanding. Jeremiah 17:9 says man has a deceitful and wicket heart. Man cannot do right without God’s help: He cannot simply follow his heart Romans 12:2 says that Christians are not to conform to the world but to Christ

About Self-Reliance Feels Will Peace True peace comes from Christ. Man’s feelings cannot be the standard of good because every man has different feelings. God and His Word is the absolute standard to judge good and evil against. Only God is truly in control.

About “Concord Hymn” Sung, first, doxology Love Rude ? abab

About Henry David Thoreau Massachusetts, Emerson Walden Taxes, jail, unjust, state, right

About “Civil Disobedience” Essay, lecture State, bad Passive Submit, God’s

About Walden Pond Metaphor Simile Reader’s Rhetorical Unnecessary Defense Autobiography Not Determination Lowest, hostile

Walden Pond

About Walt Whitman Modern Man, divine, self Bridged Role Free Freedom Grass Lincoln

About “I Hear America Singing” Labor Free Parallel listing

About Song of Myself Longest Self, divine, body

About “O Captain! My Captain!” Traditional “fallen cold and dead” Apostrophe

About “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” Elegy, death Lincoln Symbol, love Whitman Death, tone ? No