Rhetorical Analysis Of Nature By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson, while endorsing a similar type of philosophy of nature, seems more stringent in his ideas of nature and less stringent in his actual communion with nature. Of course, this could be false. It might be his writing style and authoritative tone that seem to preach more than practice. Emerson gives few personal examples, so readers really don't know if he lives in the way that he suggests readers or listeners live. Emerson seems to focus a great deal on the ties between nature and the spirit.

While writing, Emerson was using the theme of spirituality to reimagine the divine as something large and visible, he accomplished this by writing an essay called “Nature”. This idea is known as transcendentalism, which is a philosophical and social movement. Transcendentalism taught that divinity pervades all of nature and humanity. When looking out into the wilderness, a person with the right imagination can see God’s work and beauty in everything.

By repeating and capitalizing Nature multiple times throughout “Self-Reliance”. Emerson using this capitalization shows how strongly he feels that the most important idea is that the ultimate wrong towards being self-reliant is going against your Nature but also makes the audience look at Nature as a person and not just an element. Emerson’s transcendentalist ideals show his belief that God speaks to people through Nature. By connecting to this belief it appeals to the religious people of that time. Emerson uses Nature in all of his surroundings and especially in young, innocent children to connect innocent things to his beliefs to persuade readers.

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

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).

Transcendentalism was a literary and philosophical movement in a America that was looking for an identity. The main ideas of transcendentalism are that the individual should be independent and that man is inherently good. They also thought that individuals should find God through nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were the leaders of transcendentalism. Both Emerson and Thoreau wrote about these ideas and expanded them to nature and god.

The good mind, while wanting humanity to prosper, still creates things of nature. It is because of the good mind that the earth became fruitful and vegetation grew (24). The good mind’s creations helped the animals and benefitted nature along with helping humans to thrive. This shows that nature is a necessity of human life and human life in its purest form is very simplistic. The bad mind represents nature that fights humanity, it can be argued that the bad mind’s creations are a symbol of chaos, or a simplistic life before humans.

The Romantic period’s aims are related with art, not beauty but the expression and feelings which can open wider horizons. In fact, it has been defined in so many different ways. In addition, the right to individual and collective freedom is developed; this is subjective, expressing deeper feelings, most of them dark ones. Some of the characteristics that defined Romantic poetry are glorification of the individual; strong emotion, intuition, and instinct which turned more important than reason and intellect. Besides, there is a special admiration for nature, a sense that the experience of a person is equally important as the religious experience inside the world.

In this passage, Harjo describes the values of nature with its comparison to alive poems that reveals their contributions to our lives and ability to know much of life. The word nature applies to all features and products that naturally exist on Earth, excluding humans. Nature is the foundation of everything that surrounds our world where it provides the resources we live by, so we need to learn to respect nature. Moreover, Harjo also indicates the importance of respecting and cherishing nature as she reminds us to, "Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their/ tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them, / listen to them.

In the essay, A Literature of Place, Barry Lopez discusses the topic of nature and humans. He believes that everyone is shaped by nature. Lopez emphasizes on the intimacy humans need with a place and nature. He believes that the intimacy should be kept by not controlling the physical land and letting it be. To achieve this himself, he travels to remote places and relies on himself and trusts the land.

Furthermore, it is important to note that the fall is the reality of nature that Edwards seems to be missing, but Vanderspeck identifies that Edwards seems to recognize this. Vanderspeck also makes it clear that Edwards is also viewing nature in a more spiritual way. Clearly, Vanderspeck understands that both of these perspectives exist in Edwards view and that he uses these paradox to explain something. I believe that this paradox is being used to show the change in perspective towards nature that people of faith

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