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perhaps always live in a new day, unafraid of changing their ideals, their perceptions of those ideals, and thus perhaps appearing...

From the other perspective all people are poets through their jobs, their use of symbols, their subconscious adherence to anything...

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

my eyes,) which nature cannot repair" (Emerson). In this he clearly envisions nature as an entity that can fix all mans problems,...

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...

the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...

be true to oneself in solitude, the hammer of outside voices when in the midst of society tends to sway people toward conformity. ...

This feature of transcendentalism is clearly evident in Emersons address. Emerson begins "The Divinity School Address" with a ly...

stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...

are part of the community, even if not actively so. It comes down to the old adage of "it takes all kinds" for communities are mad...

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

In six pages Emerson's influence in terms of one's self authority is considered as it is reflected in the protagonist of Edna Pont...

In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...

himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...

In six pages this paper considers Ralph Emerson's influence in terms of style of writing and his transcendentalist concept of happ...

In five pages each sentence of a paragraph featured in Emerson's 1841 essay is analyzed. One source is cited in the bibliography....

In eight pages this paper discusses Emerson's poetry not for its original thinking but for the philosophical crossroads his works ...

simply that Moses, Plato and Milton had the self-confidence to express themselves, which ordinary people do not. Ordinary people,...

Two of Walt Whitman's most famous works, O Captain, My Captain and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, capture the essence o...

divinity that each of us possesses. The young are the best in expressing the proper faith in their own abilities because their min...

his own creative energy to produce a great career for himself, but he in many ways conformed. He conformed to the needs of society...

means nothing when they are unable to see beyond what is before them to the heart of the art and the beauty of its simple being. T...

or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...

denominator in all of his writings; however, this keen awareness was truly evident within the literary boundaries of Nature. In a...

or the ability to chart their own individual course. Although by all intents and purposes, Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to live a...

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...