Essay On Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism was a literary movement between 1836 and 1860. Writers of the movement believed that divinity pervades all nature and humanity. One of the most influential writers of the time was Ralph Waldo Emerson. His essay “Nature” explores the relation between a man, God, and nature. When a snake sheds, it only loses there outermost layer of its skin but “a man casting off his years” surrounded by nature what he’s been sustaining has been lifted. Just like you’ve been holding on to something for years and you finally confess it and feel this refine in your body. In nature, it’s a living feeling like when he said “I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration” to “I am glad to the brink of fear” which he has too happy that it frighten him (5-6). “We return to reason and faith” that mankind can be sane and faith refers to

Usually whenever it’s cloudy and raining outside we tend to feel despair and sorrow and if it’s sunny outside, we tend to feel energetic and vibrant. Nature is what we want it to be by tending nature determine our mood that’s what “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit” define (31-32). Emerson is pointing out that our perspective of nature is constantly changing like our own moods for example when a person is sad, the sky is appreciated less interpreting what he says “Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend” (33-34). A sky can be looked at individually depending on how the person is feeling when they look at it when he says “The sky's less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population”