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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00glr78
Title: Thoreau and the American Idyll

Analysis:
This podcast talks about the peace associated with living similar to a transcendentalist like Henry David Thoreau. While living in this way, you spend your days observing and giving praise to different aspects of nature. When it says to become one with nature, it means to try to survive in the wild like other animals, and see the psychological and sociological effects of this experience.

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https://genius.com/Idina-menzel-let-it-go-lyrics
Title: Let It Go
Artist: Idina Menzel
Excerpt From Lyrics:
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I’m the Queen

The wind is howling
Like this swirling storm inside
Couldn’t keep it in
Heaven knows I tried…

Analysis:

This song states many aspects of transcendentalism. The song states, "A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I’m the Queen." This shows that your world is isolated from the rest of society, and you are the one in control of your life. This means that there are no laws, and you get to live life on your own terms.

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Title: My Snorkeling Trip in the Bahamas

Analysis:
This trip was a life-changing experience. Underwater, there was a whole new world I had never given much thought to. I also learned to appreciate nature for giving me an opportunity to experience life underwater.

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Title: My Trip to the Smoky Mountains

Analysis:
I learned a lot from my trip to the Smokey Mountains. Essentially, I learned how to survive out in the wild. I learned to appreciate nature for its resources such as water, to drink, and for trees, for wood.

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Title: On The Saco
Painter: Albert Bierstadt

Analysis:
First, this painting shows the beauty of nature that is only comparable to the beauty of Heaven by showing the various colors of leaves on the trees. It shows the diverse and changing landscape by starting out with flat land and a river and ending with mountains and hills in the background. Furthermore, this painting shows cows relying on earth's natural resource, water, to survive during the months of fall, when many plants die and sources of water start to freeze into ice.

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Title: The Voyage of Life: Youth
Painter: Cole Thomas

Analysis:
This piece of art suggests that the nature available to us on Earth is the equivalent of Heaven. The painting shows an angel roaming around in the woods on the bank of a river to show that it is is such a wonderful place that even angels come to live and spend their time where there is nature. Also, present in this painting is a little girl pointing to a heaven-like structure in front of her. This suggest that things that beautiful could only be found in or around nature.

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https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/r/ralphwaldoemerson/101322/ralphwaldoemerson1-2x.jpg
Analysis:
This quote revolves around self reliance. Self reliance is the surviving and relying on your own without the help of others. So the message this quote is trying to send is: don't rely on what has already been done by others, and instead, do something not done by anyone else before. This way, you will not be able to get help from others, and you will have to rely on yourself and earth's natural resources.

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https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/h/henrydavidthoreau/132996/henrydavidthoreau1-2x.jpg
Analysis:
Thoreau, in one way, relates the water and its reflection of the sky to represent that heaven is not only in the sky, but also on the ground and on Earth. So, indirectly stated is the fact that nature, and the present is heaven. This goes back to the transcendental philosophy of no afterlife and living in the present and calling it heaven.

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Polar Bear vs. Walrus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvWLbK_mNw0

Analysis:
Both the polar bears and the walrus live in nature. Also, they have no concept of afterlife. This video shows how the walrus use a natural resource provided by the Earth, water, to live in and survive. Also, in this video, the polar bear is shown attacking the walrus because it needs some source of food to survive in the wild, where the type and quantity of food is unpredictable depending the region and livestock.

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https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/r/ralphwaldoemerson/125813/ralphwaldoemerson1-2x.jpg
Analysis:
This goes back to living and becoming one with nature. This quote says that nature can have an affect on our mood. For example, if it is a rainy day, we might have a sad and gloomy mood. However, if it is nice and sunny outside, we might feel bright, ready, and refreshed.

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http://www.lionking.org/lyrics/OMPS/CircleOfLife.html
Title: Circle of Life
Artist: Elton John
Excerpt From Lyrics:
Some say, "Eat or be eaten."
Some say, "Live and let live."
But all are agreed
As they join the stampede
You should never take more than you give

Analysis:
The song emphasizes the connection between living beings and nature. The lyric "eat or be eaten" shows how living creatures eat and live off of nature. Then, when they die, they become nutrients for the Earth. This process embodies the transcendental concept of our relationship with nature.

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http://web.b.ebscohost.com/lrc/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=6&sid=ca84fdc2-941a-4698-b037-c66c35c8f055%40pdc-v-sessmgr06
Title: Naturalism, Transcendentalism, and the American Landscape: An Undergraduate Course in American Nature Writing

Author: Steven Frye

Analysis:
In this article, it is said, "courses dealing with the representation of nature in literature have increased in university curriculum wherein the motivation among faculty is to make texts relevant to student's lives." (Frye 1). This is being done because students can relate to nature because they are living in it and it is around them all the time. This goes relates to living and dealing with the present, which is on Earth and dealing with earth's natural resources. This article shifts away from thinking about the future and the afterlife, things that cannot be related to because there is no evidence. Also, moving away from the thoughts of afterlife is ideal because afterlife is a universally shared belief, and according to transcendentalism, you should live off your own beliefs and not by the beliefs of others.

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https://genius.com/Walt-disney-records-hakuna-matata-lyrics
Title: Hakuna Matata
Artist: Jimmy Cliff and Lebo M.
Excerpt From Lyrics:
Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase
Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze
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It means no worries for the rest of your days

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It's our problem-free philosophy
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Hakuna Matata!'

Analysis:
The song emphasizes the good aspects of living in nature. The song states, "It means no worries for the rest of your days," to state the fact that life is stress-free when you live in nature, away from everyone else. Also, the song expresses the joy felt when living this king of transcendental-like lifestyle.

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
Author: T.S. Eliot
Title: The Wasteland

April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee

With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,

And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke’s,

My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled,

And I was frightened. He said, Marie,

Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

Analysis:
This poem talks about feelings associated with nature. One part of the poem that reads "In the mountains, there you feel free," describes the feelings and emotions you feel and show when among mountains. Also, months of the years are given feelings due to their natural characteristics. For example, the poem reads, "April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

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http://web.b.ebscohost.com/lrc/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&sid=e29e479e-233b-404b-b32e-269bc1994c58%40pdc-v-sessmgr05
Title: Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Transcendentalism
Author: Robert D. Habich

Analysis:
Habich discusses the new wave of scholarly studies about transcendentalist writers that have appeared since 2013. He pays close " attention to transnational and cosmopolitan contexts." (Habich 1). This includes their effects on philosophy and religion as well on society and culture.

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https://www.fridakahlo.org/images/paintings/the-wounded-deer.jpg
Title: The Wounded Deer
Painter: Frida Kahlo

Analysis:
In the entire image, the only man made product, the arrows, are used for violence. The rest of the picture displays the harmony between humans and nature, and how man tries to tear that apart. In the painting, the antellars represent Frida's connection to man, and no matter how powerful she tries to portray herself, sh is still looked down upon because of her status as a woman. This is a commentary on how humans view nature as well as the role of women in society. This dialogue displays a transcendental theme of the nature of mankind.

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Analysis:
In this short excerpt from Walden, Thoreau delivers us the depth with which he visualizes natures. He connects Earth with the life after death by explaining nature as the "lower heaven." He indulges into the importance of the lake and as to why man should become close with it.