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Frost, By Frost And Robert Frost: What Is Transcendentalism

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What is Transcendentalism? Transcendentalism is the belief of the goodness in people and nature and that society ruins the goodness of an individual by its harsh rules and regulations and the only way a person can truly be good is when they are away from society and truly independent and self-reliant. Transcendentalism is individualism; it’s believing that a person is best when they are independent. In a way, it’s what keeps us going in life, our love and passion for something. It’s doing what you want to do because you want to do it and it doesn’t matter what anyone else says because what matters is your happiness. To be truly deeply happy you have to do what you want to do because if you don’t then you’re just wasting your life. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. (Frost, The Road Not Taken) Frost in ‘The Road Not Taken’ chooses the path that was less traveled by because that’s what he wanted to do. He could have been like all the others before him, who followed others footsteps, but he did what he wanted to and that changed him. This poem was a metaphor for life, and what the poet was really trying to say was how we have two choices in life, and we should choose what we want and not what others want us to do. Doing what we want to do is what keeps us going in life, not the goals that are set by society for us, it’s the goals we set for ourselves that keep us going. Society will always find flaws in
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