Walt Whitman And Transcendentalism

The Romantic genre is based solely on emotion and self. It was a celebration of creative imagination and found beauty in nature which was viewed as a moral teacher. Art was also viewed as spontaneous and organic. It looks and felt that way. Poetry seemed to portray the thoughts and feelings of Romanticism better than novels. It seemed to intensify the original effect. Romantic authors chose topics that were thought-provoking and appealed to the readers’ emotions to help better their point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the first author to show the Romantic genre in his writings. He being the creator and Father of Transcendentalism, he rejected all Enlightenment empiricism. The Transcendentalist movement consists in three subjects: religious, philosophical,

Whitman is viewed as the creator of free verse and using rhythm instead of meter. One of his major innovations is American English. Instead of the genteel tradition, he creates his own rhythms. He tries to capture all of his thoughts into one small space. He has a close connection to Transcendentalism though he moves more towards realism during his career. In his texts, he created the inclusive “I”, meaning that instead of speaking of only himself when stating “I”, he included everyone in the human race. He also invented the American common man. His writings revolved around the common man instead of the higher society. His essays also had catalogs of thought and repeating beginnings as a commonality. In Whitman’s essay “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”, his main motif is the cradle. It describes the tides and their constant motion. The poem is about his memories and their individual importance. In the beginning of the poem he says that there is one important word that will be revealed at the end of the poem, but you must stick with him throughout all of it. By the end of the poem, the word revealed is “death”. In the end, he states that death is what connects everyone together. Things do not stay happy throughout the poem, but it is not ultimately a sad poem. It is about the acceptance of life and what we do about the knowledge that we gain. In the awareness of death we gain an awareness of

She was an incredible introvert. The only thing that left her house was her publications. She grew up in a privileged home growing up very sickly. This might possibly be the biggest reason she never left her household. Her publications were her short and thought-provoking poems. Only seven of her poems were published in her lifetime. The large amount of the remaining unpublished poems were published only a few years after her death. Dickinson believed that society was not a good thing, so much so that she refused to ever leave her house. She believed that a person is capable of growing on their own without the help of a corrupt society. She believed that society only brought bad things and should not be revered like it was in her day. Romantics, in the most cliché and obvious way, are romantic. They view that all good things come from within and all things that try to change one’s good nature is corrupt and evil. In some cases, this is true. Society is not the best guide to living one’s life. Society is selfish and greedy. I agree with all of these Romantic authors when they disagree with the ways of