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About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unitarian, Nature Own Optimistic Personal not unify
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About Transcendentalism
Deity, good Pantheism Emerson - divine - intuition - redeem - Bible Closest Brook, failed Poe Sin Blow biblical
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About Nature bible Adults Nature eyeball
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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
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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.
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About “Concord Hymn” Sung, first, doxology Love Rude ? abab
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About Henry David Thoreau
Massachusetts, Emerson Walden Taxes, jail, unjust, state, right
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About “Civil Disobedience”
Essay, lecture State, bad Passive Submit, God’s
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About Walden Pond Metaphor Simile Reader’s Rhetorical Unnecessary
Defense Autobiography Not Determination Lowest, hostile
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Walden Pond
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About Walt Whitman Modern Man, divine, self Bridged Role Free Freedom
Grass Lincoln
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About “I Hear America Singing”
Labor Free Parallel listing
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About Song of Myself Longest Self, divine, body
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About “O Captain! My Captain!”
Traditional “fallen cold and dead” Apostrophe
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About “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Elegy, death Lincoln Symbol, love Whitman Death, tone ? No
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