Materialism In Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'

Edgar Allan Poe expressed the way he felt and saw things in a more straightforward way. Edgar wrote about how things are in reality but in a different perspective. Thoreau’s poems are some of the most peaceful writings. Thoreau and Emerson focused on nature and spirituality and how one can feel connected to the earth. In their view, “Nature is the outward sign of inward spirit” as Emerson wrote in his poem “Nature” (1836).

Theme of Walt Whitman is very focused of celebration and unity of life, whereas Emily’s are the opposite with themes including: death, the end of life, sadness, despair, depression. Walt’s writing, for example in “Leaves of Grass” Whitman writes, “I loafe and invite my soul,/an and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass”(whitman).Readers can easily sense a theme of life, joy and nature in his writing. In contrast

They both were willing to put their lives in danger in order to examine nature closer or to get the full experience of nature. Both of them were under the assumption that they were basically immortal and that their only purpose was to be free. However maybe it is better that they both had roamed free- it is never a good idea to keep a wandering spirit cooped up. McCandless and Ruess had both felt that they were drawn to nature and meant to be there and that beauty was all that mattered. They were drawn to it and it eventually cost both of them their

Propose your ideas and impulse but do not be pushy was another tip. Lopez also notes that being silent and just absorbing that land around you will help create this safe place. Lastly, he claims that having a conversation with the land will promote the friendship. Ultimately, what Lopez is trying to convey through his essay is nature shapes humans and their thoughts, thus helping people's’ imaginations create stories.

For instance, in her poem “The Duties of the wind are few”, she linked abstract things like pleasure or liberty to things from nature like wind. This poem is insightful and there is too much religion involved. She was rebelling against the ideals of the Puritan which involved her in a individual struggle with the existence of God, the power of nature and the meaning of love for each person. In addition, in her poem “Knows how to forget” she left on the surface the feeling of lost, love, pain and not

Annie Dillard’s essay “Sight into Insight” emphasizes how one must live in the moment and not sway towards others opinions in order to gain accurate observations on a situation. She uses nature as a prominent theme in her essay to represent the thought of looking past the superficial obvious in order to go deeper to where the hidden beauty rests. Dillard wants the reader to realize in order to observe clearly you have to live in the moment and let go of the knowledge you think you know on the situation. Dillard uses the example of her “walking with a camera vs walking without one” (para.31) and how her own observations differed with each. When she walked with the camera she “read the light” (para.31), and when she didn’t “light printed” (para.31).

Transcendentalist writers were focused on the belief of the divinity of the individual soul, the inner voice, (Crawford, Kern & Needleman, 1961) to overcome social stereotypes and to avoid conformity. It is highlighted the importance to return to nature to enhance the quality of humans beings by living simply since being apart of common social rules is the only way to be in communion with nature’s wisdom. Those transcendental characteristics could be seen in Emerson’s ¨self-reliance¨ or Thoreau’s ¨Walden ¨ bearing in mind that although, Emerson’s ¨Self-reliance¨ adheres more descriptive examples to illustrate metaphors and Thoreau’s ¨Where I lived and what I lived for¨ introduces metaphors creating much more imagery, both make a critique of the modern individual using

Hello, my name is Rahel and my name is Vivian. Today we are presenting and analysing the poem ‘In the Park’ by Gwen Harwood. Our visual presentation is in the form of a set photographs, this is called expectations versus reality. We named our set of photographs this because we believe it relates to the poem because through the words written we can sense that the mother loathes the reality she is living in, that the expectations she had for herself were not achieved. The mother yearns for the life she could have had and probably dreams about it every so often, so we created a snapshot of the alternative reality she craves through these photos.

Romanticism in ¨From Song of Myself¨ From song of myself, is a very open minded poem as the author Walt Whitman speaks so much in this poem about himself. Throughout the poem there is a variety of topics going on through every other line in where Walt Whitman declares that he is going to celebrate himself in his poem by all the personal opinions he provides in it. In this poem, Whitman explains how much he loves the world, especially nature and how everything fits together just as it should.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, deploys color symbolism in order to further develop characters and the plot. Fitzgerald’s use of color symbolism within The Great Gatsby not only defines the characters but adds depth to them. The most recognized color within the novel is “the single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock” (26). In addition to the green light, there are many other colors within the novel that embody characters, objects, and ideas. The most significant and memorable colors, other than green, are white and yellow, both of which are intertwined in Fitzgerald’s fictional world of materialism and scandal.

(Lane 46). Lane explains that Edwards now has a more spiritual perception of the woods. He is now viewing it more as a place of spiritual enormity that he could go out and see. This “glimpsing” makes it so that Edwards views the woods as less dangerous and more of a place where he can go and bask in the power of the higher being. This is why despite the paradox inherent between what the woods is and what Edwards sees there is a

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Overall, Knight’s intention of written her journal is to retain all her memories from her dangerous journey, to later show it to her family, mostly for amusement. Instead, Bartram has the intention to promote his journal for economical and biological purpose without forgetting his intention of showing a scientific identification of new species providing a proper picture of “American Landscape”.

Early American Transcendentalist text communicated diverse views of nature through the use of rhetorical strategies such as similes, metaphors, parallelism, repetition, imagery, and rhetorical questions. The various essays and module, shows how the diverse view of early American Transcendentalists saw nature as beautiful and serene. Some also saw nature as a way to discover one’s true self, but must do so by believing in one’s own power and resources, rather than relying on others for support. There were others saw nature as a phenomena that could be tampered with as long as it brought back something that they cherished. In the essay “from Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the module “Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty ” by Carolyn Said, and the

“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” - George Orwell. In the novel Paper Towns by John Green, Margo Roth Spiegelman describes how Orlando is a fake city and how it is made out of “paper”. Not many people really understand her except for Quentin Jacobsen, who goes out of his way to decipher what she means. John Green uses the phrase “paper towns” as a metaphor in the novel.