Unit 2, Part 2 - Transcendentalism

The real flowering of romanticism in American literature came in the New England literary movement called

Transcendentalism

For the first time, in America what became something to celebrate rather than deny?

Self

Who were the two most prominent voices among transcendedalists

Emerson and Thoreau

Briefly describe what transcendentalists believed to be true

Lived in a realm of spiritual or transcendent truths beyond what Mann/humans can through their senses

Emerson thought that he could lead people to

Self-discovery

A form of persuasion that makes a case to an audience for accepting or rejecting a proposition or a course of action is called

Argument

A central message or perception about life that is revealed through a literary work is

Theme

What does nature closely speak and relate to?

Children

By the changing of the seasons and weather, what does nature show a variety of according to the speaker?

Emotions

explain the theme of “nature” as discussed in class

It is important to have one this with nature

“Self-reliance’s” thesis statement can be found an opening paragraph briefly explain this thesis or main deal of the selection

The main idea is to reject conformity

there’s a shift in the way that people viewed God. What two peoples/ideals contrasted one another.

Puritans vs Transcendentalists

List two of the historical groups that Emerson mentioned to be misunderstood

Socrates and Jesus