Examples Of Transcendentalism

Authors have weaves Transcendentalism into many articles and stories throughout time. A number of authors have realized the factors of transcendentalism. Authors like Jon Krakauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Michael Donovan, have all wrote pieces on their transcendental beliefs. Michael Donovan’s poem it’s all on me shared that he also believes that you become high and have a high sense of feeling and unity with yourself. “‘Rise-up’ - ‘Carpe diem’ rings-out far-and-wide; no place I can hide in my head”, which he is saying that he’s rising up and becoming more than life itself.

Emerson’s uses spirituality in his writing, expressing that one perceives a new god and become one with nature. From Nature, Emerson writes “ I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of parcel of God”, which is saying that once you are in nature you are part of something higher, the feeling of being intact with higher beings become stronger. Nature is one thing no one can control it is but at peace with itself, unlike people nature doesn’t lose its way. It remains constant, whereas people get lost within ourselves, Emerson says we become one with ourselves when we enter nature, “In the woods, we return to

Like Emerson, he felt physiologically at peace when he surrounded himself with nature. Thoreau wrote the experiences that brought him closer to it. He says, “He will put something’s behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings” like Emerson, Thoreau’s Transcendentalism belief that once in nature, people experience a high self attitude, becoming one with something