Transcendentalism lit project 4

Transcendentalist believed that god spoke through peoples minds and their work of effort. they believed every human was pure and goo, they also believed that god could communicate to peopole through nature and intuition.

When i first read the writing Nature by Ralph Emerson it was very confusing i know i re-read this writing 3 or 4 times to really get a hang on and even beging to explain what it was talking about. In my opionion it is talking about loving nature. Ralph had the feeling that people didn't love nature or appreciate it. In reality this is actually true. He talks about stars and what if they would appear one night out of an odd amount of years..i ask this question what would be the point? who would that satisfy. To be able to appreciate nature you have to get a feel for it for example in this quote ,"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood". To me this is saying that people not only love nature with their hearts but they respect it with their minds.


"Nature" would be a great example of transcendentalism because, the story is describing how mankind and nature interact with God.In this writing the writer expresses how God talks with man through nature. for instance he states that if the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and respect nature. The story also says that His intercourse with heaven and earth becomes a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. "Nature says—he is my creature, and despite all his impertinent grief’s, he shall be glad with me.



"Self-Reliance" would fit into the different types of ways a man can act as if he has constant attitude changes. There is a time in every man ‘s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, or for worse. The power that resides in him through new nature, and none but he knows what that which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. " It takes a divine man to exhibit anything devine". I really feel this quote expresses how man has been chosen because of his bravery and strong mindedness.
"Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. To me this is saying that all a man really has to do is put his best effort into something to achieve his goal.

"Resistance To Civil Government" talks about how people should be governed. American government is a tradition, though a recent one was endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant loosing some of its intensity. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. To sum it all up having a government is about wanting to do something or make a change for the better.
This story tells how people under the government havt to abide by the rules that are set. A transcendetalist would not like having a government. Trancendentalist didn't believe in a such thing a an government because they thought the human individual mind was the strongest in the universe.

4. Susan and David planned to marry as soon as they graduated high school. David's father owns a small grocery store, and he has promised David a full-time managerial position once he graduates high school. During their senior year, Susan begins to think she would like to go to school hundreds of miles away. In the Spring, Susan recieves a full scholarship to this far-off school, and she has also continued making wedding plans with David.

first off me and david would have had to have a clear understanding an alot of planning to do i would make sure that he was willing to understand that i was trying to better myself by going off to a good school. i would have continued to plan for marriage but i would get my schooling out of the way first.Most of all i would have prayed about it because i feel that god will never steer you in the wrong place.