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1. After reviewing the Romanticism resource page, list three characteristics of Romanticism. Also, identify three authors of the Romantic period. * Three characteristics of Romanticism are: Idealism, passionate nationalism, and profound love of nature. Three Authors of the Romantic period include: William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. 2. Using the Transcendentalism resource page, list three characteristics of Transcendentalism. * Three characteristics of Trancendentalism are: Intuition, Over-soul, and reverence for nature. . How did Transcendentalists feel about nature? What did Transcendentalists feel about the inherent nature of human beings (were humans inherently good or evil)? * Transcendentalists had a deep respect for nature and believed that all human beings were inherently good. 4. Transcendentalists believe that individuals “transcend” by learning from and living in harmony with nature. Thoreau put this philosophy into practice by living alone in a cabin he built himself at Walden Pond for two years (1845 -1847).
Thoreau’s experiences during this period provided him with the material for his masterwork??Walden??(1854). The quote below is fromWalden. Describe two specific things Thoreau learned about life by translating the lines below in your own words: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…. I wanted to live deeply and suck out all the marrow of life. ” (Walden) I believe what Walden learned was that there are many things in life that aren’t essential to a healthy life style and that some believing living takes place in society, while HE realized he was never truly living until he had gone out on his own into natures inhabitants. 5. Which two great passive resistance leaders were influenced by the premise of Transcendentalism through the works of Thoreau and Emerson? * Gandhi and Martin Luther King were both influenced by the works of Thoreau and Emerson. 6. Click on the following link to read Edgar Allan Poe’s??”Annabel Lee”?? a.
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe b. After reviewing the Romanticism resource page and the poem, identify two characteristics of Romanticism found in this poem. Identify specific examples (lines) in the poem that represent each of the characteristics you have chosen. After identifying the lines,??explain??(in your own words) how the lines represent the characteristics of Romanticism. For example: line 3 “my love was a love” is an example of idealism because… * Throughout the poem he refers to “the sea”, and the wind “chilling”??Annabel Lee.
The very use of all of the terms of nature shows his love for it, as he is using it throughout to set the scene. The last stanza probably best displays the love of nature, as nearly every line has some reference to nature in it: “For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the??beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea. ” Moon, stars, tide, sea, etc… e relates all of them to his memory, and his love, of Annabel Lee. 7. Using the links below, find one quote from Emerson and one from Thoreau that best exemplifies??your??definition of Transcendentalism. Be sure to include your explanation of why each of these quotes relates to your perception of Transcendentalism… * Emerson Quotes The backbone of??Transcendentalism??is an anti-rational prejudice. In an age of unparalleled scientific discovery, and increasing religious doubt, the??Transcendentalistinsisted that wisdom came from the soul – not from the intellect.
Bearing in mind that what distinguishes Transcendentalism from other intellectual movement of the day was its cult of unreason, the characteristic quote from Emerson has to be: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ” where Emerson affirms that he doesn’t care whether his ideas are consistent – or stand up to scrutiny; they are his ideas, and they must be right * Thoreau Quotes Thoreau took his Transcendentalism further than Emerson, insisting that the only true wisdom was not only unshareable – but could be discovered, and known, exclusively in isolation.
These days we would call Thoreau a paranoid schizophrenic, and put him in pharmaceutical manacles for the good of society. But not so very long ago sociopathy found a paying public: Thoreau hated all mankind, but he had no objection to folk buying his books. His philosophy is summed up by his urgent desire to tell everyone who would listen how little he cared whether they bothered with his ideas or not: “Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! “