Andreas Luca - Transcendentalism Project by ANDREAS LUCA

1A: Walden – “Where I lived and What I Lived For”

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"Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness."

- Henry David Thoreau

1B: “Walking”

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"If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again—if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man—then you are ready for a walk."

- Henry David Thoreau

1C: "Nature"

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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

6: My Hashtag

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#TRANQUILANDHARMONIOUS

1D: "Beauty"

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“For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single. Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique. A leaf, a sun-beam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

7A: First Picture of Me Living Out Transcendentalism

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7B: Second Picture of Me Living Out Transcendentalism

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7C: Third Picture of Me Living Out Transcendentalism

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1E: “Self-Reliance”

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"Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2A: "O Me! O Life!"

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Walt Whitman's poem O Me! O Life! evoked a substantial feeling of responsibility out of me. In his explanation of how life is overflowing with dullness, he provided me with the feeling that the world is lackluster and people live without any feeling of purpose. He later provided a quite simple answer: existence itself. Whitman says life is play and each human can give their own verse. This urged me into realization that I can have a contribution to life as well and bequeathed me with this notion of human purpose being their contribution to life. This connects to the ideas of Transcendentalism because it urges people to seek their own truth and meaning as an offering to the world; a "verse" to this "play."

2B: Dead Poets Society

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"Carpe diem. Even if it kills me."

- Knox Overstreet

3: My Declaration of Self

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Through my existence, I will provide as much as possible in contribution to this world. I will give perception and listen to all that anyone has to say, truly feeling their different views. I will give knowledge, sharing any intellect I possibly can to help people who need advice. I will give aspiration by urging people to find their own verse to give to the world and provide optimism to bring people up. With these three offerings, I hope to have an amazing effect on this play of life, and keep the story entertaining.

4: My Poem

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The city sings a technological beat,

Its voice seems to contain no soul, and it is looked for;

It is unable to be found.

It is shrouded by the chaos of the pixelated screens;

The soul yearns for escape.

It wants its shackles unbonded,

It wants its knots untied,

It wants its cuffs unlocked,

But this is not possible, no, it would be impossible!

Is it so much to ask to have its freedom, to live the way it wants?

The soul has tried, and tried, and tried, but it cannot be freed,

It has given up, until, it hears something. Could it be?

The trees whisper truths which have been unseen,

Beyond the gleaming flicker of digitality.

Their murmurs sound heavenly, calling the soul to wander once more;

It dreams of rivers that run without shackles,

Of skies untampered with by ties and chains.

The soul is no longer bound by the city's technological song,
It has found its solution, and steps past the city's discord,
Into nature, where only tranquility sings.

5: Modern Day Example of Transcendentalist Thought

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8: The Challenges of Living out the Tenets of Transcendentalism

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9: Synthesis Essay

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Thesis: Transcendentalism can be seen in modern-day life through the impact it has on personal development, specifically through its ideas of nature, self-reliance, and individualism.

Significant Quotes:

"Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle."