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1. Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement in the early 19th century
2. Transcendentalists believed in the importance of nature, the individual, and the divine
3. Transcendentalist writers were known to stress the importance of the individual person, and how all beings were interwoven in some way in the end

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1. Transcendentalism was a literary movement which covered the years from 1836 to about 1860.
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1. In 1836, Transcendentalists such as Ralph Emerson, Ellen Hooper and Walk Whitman, believed in the idea and reasoning that in order to understand nature you must analyze the reasoning process that governs the nature experience.

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1.People tend to get a new perspective on the familiar when they embrace a new situation.
2.Without prompting, one might read, “Walden,” and assume a literal meaning.  While in some ways it is quite literal, Thoreau also offers countless metaphors that provide a figurative meaning to the story.
3."I am a monarch of all I survey, my right there is none to dispute.

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1. To transcend--go beyond-- you must look into yourself for the answers.

2. Thoreau adds literary devices like repetition, metaphors and similes

3. For example, Thoreau says "But by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate." (30)

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1. Transcendentalism was a movement in the 19th century that consisted of  individual with the same belief.

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1.   No one is nearly as reliable as oneself.
2. In the excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson's piece "Self-Reliance" the authors uses metaphors, repetition of ideas, and powerful word choice.
3."no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil" (Emerson 369).

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1. Ever since the early sixteen hundreds, collective publications have been categorized into what are now called literary movements.

2. He expertly connects these ideals through the use of tone and assorted rhetorical devices.

3. In book six it is stated “Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, / A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,”  (4, 5)

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1. Thoughts are a very important, very powerful part of our life.

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Transcendentalists were a loose-knit group of writers, artists, and reformers during the 1830's and 1840's.
Thoreau's piece "Civil Disobedience conveys the ideas that man was the center of the universe, no institution was more powerful than man, and individuality.
"...for a single man can bend it to his own will..."

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1. The Transcendentalist Movement reigned from 1836 to 1860, and brought unique literature focusing on nature, humanity, society, and the divine.
2.In the poem “Nature,” the author Ralph Waldo Emerson shows the relationship between humanity and nature by using a unique diction and rhetorical devices.
3."The power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both" (Emerson 368), is a good example of Emerson showing the pristine relationship between nature and man.

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1. Transcendentalists are a group of unique and intuitive individuals that share a common belief in individualism and spiritual thinking.

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3. "At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house" (Thoreau 49).

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1.Transcendentalism has has lots of powerful words in the writings and poetry that were wrote.

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1. A philosophical movement based on individuality and the importance of nature, Transcendentalism happened around the middle of the 1800's.
2. In "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau believes that the government is broken, and he wants to fix it. His vision of a perfect government is of a very small and minuscule government.
3. “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government” (Thoreau, 389). This quote shows that Thoreau believes that there should be a government, just a better one.

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1. Transcendentalism was a literary movement during the early nineteenth century that produced many philosophical essays and poetry.

2. in "I Hear America Singing", Walt Whitman builds the transcendentalist ideas of an "over-soul" and the importance of the individual spirit, through the use of literary devices.

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1.The era of Transcendentalism in American Literature occurred during the early nineteenth century.

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1. During the Transcendentalism movement in the 19th century, authors and philosophers believed strongly in the idea of individualism.

2. Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" has many examples of individualism

3. Whitman says that he can hear "the varied carols" of the American people.

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1. "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." this quote by John Burroughs a nature essayist and naturalist binds with the thoughts of Emerson's because through out his piece he explained how nature should be your place of peace and harmony.
2. In "Nature", Ralph Emerson he uses personification, he uses a lot of metaphors, and other literary devices to convey that nature is something that we should respect and enjoy.
3. At the very beginning of the piece he uses personification to explain nature how it could be comic or a sad place, "Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece."

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1.Nature is the essence of humanity.

2. Henry David Thoreau uses his journey through the oversoul to convey his journey to his audience.

3." I had but ten cents in the world and it surpassed my arithmetic to tell."

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1. Transcendentalism was a literary movement between the years 1836 and 1860.

2.  In“Self-Realization,” Ralph Emerson uses strong diction and powerful sentence structure to help display his ideas of trusting one’s self.

3.  Emerson uses “To be great is to be misunderstood” (Emerson 46),  to express his awareness of self empowerment.

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1. Copy and paste your first line of your paper.

2. Copy and paste your thesis.

3. Give one quote/textual evidence you are going to use.