Transcendentalism-Nick Ericksen by NICHOLAS ERICKSEN https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok en-us 2021-10-11 01:30:17 UTC 2024-11-21 12:35:43 UTC hello@padlet.com #4 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1806568045 Drowning in my sorrow
Falling, deeper still into my despair
It had become too much
Far too hard to bear
Like a pail so desperately vying to stay filled
With holes plaguing it’s effort, unbeknownstly there
The water, draining, slowly until it’s dry
So was I, attempting vainly to regain my strength,
Dry, descending immeasurably, giving into the desperation of life
Exhausted,  I was left but one option: return

To her, her embrace like a warm summer evening
Her touch, igniting fire within my soul,
Spreading from the point of contact to my entire being
Like wildfire, my skin crawling, aching for more
Her eyes, brown, like the fantastical hue of leaves of oak in autumn,
The feelings behind them no less grand
These attributes akin to no other,
Were my home, my true tranquility.
She filled me, fully, effortlessly plugging my pail
Engulfing me until I permeated with perfect placidity
]]> 2021-10-11 03:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1806568045 #3 Declaration of Self 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1808703920 In this poem of our lives, I will contribute my whole soul and being to the world. I will contribute my intellect towards my field of study, most likely in business or medical. I will vie to make advancements to the world we live in, in order to make the world a better place. But, above all, I will be a light unto others. I will be a guide, a teacher, a counselor, to all, no matter the circumstance. I will give my counsel to all that ask, from children, to friends, colleagues, even those above me. I will bring peace and positivity with me wherever I may go, lifting others up with me. I am hoping to leave a message of perseverance and compassion behind with me. I also would like to spread a message about the nature of society today, specifically that it has a lot of areas to improve.


]]> 2021-10-11 20:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1808703920 #6 #MeBeforeWe 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809702312 2021-10-12 05:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809702312 #7C 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809728007 2021-10-12 05:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809728007 #7B 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809732446 2021-10-12 05:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809732446 #7A 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809737946 The luscious green scenery of Oahu helped me realize how small I truly was in the universe, but also emphasized the importance of my life, since I was given a chance to live in this beautiful place, following the ideals of transcendentalism.]]> 2021-10-12 05:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809737946 #5 UFO-Bad Books 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809772846 In this song, it takes an alien abduction for the protagonist to realize the beauty of the Earth, and realize that he truly does belong, reflecting the tenet of returning to nature in transcendentalism.]]> 2021-10-12 05:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809772846 #2B 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809788025 Neil truly followed his dreams and rebelled against what his father had pressured him into doing, acting in the play, showing the values of individualism and rejection of tradition in transcendentalism.]]> 2021-10-12 05:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809788025 #2A 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809819485 I find this poem, along with the movie, to be very tear-jerking, while also very very uplifting. In Whitman's poem, he describes the nature that we live in, and asks a question, one that I relate very deeply to. He gives his answer, that we "may contribute a verse," to life, which I find very uplifting and inspirational. This is echoed in the movie with the motto "Carpe Diem," and the actions of the characters. I find both of these pieces to be very uplifting in nature, and they inspire me to live my life to the fullest.]]> 2021-10-12 06:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1809819485 #1A- Walden 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812164852 "Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary forever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment. The nation itself, with all its so- called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose." -Henry David Thoreau


]]> 2021-10-12 22:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812164852 #1B- Walking 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812179797 "If you would go to the political world, follow the great road, follow that market-man, keep his dust in your eyes, and it will lead you straight to it; for it, too, has its place merely, and does not occupy all space. I pass from it as from a bean field into the forest, and it is forgotten. In one half-hour I can walk off to some portion of the earth's surface where a man does not stand from one year's end to another, and there, consequently, politics are not, for they are but as the cigar-smoke of a man." -Henry David Thoreau]]> 2021-10-12 23:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812179797 #1C-Nature 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812198127 " 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. Standing on the bare ground,–my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,–all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson ]]> 2021-10-12 23:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812198127 #1D- Beauty 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812211663 "The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All." -Ralph Waldo Emerson]]> 2021-10-12 23:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812211663 #1E- Self-Reliance 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812220036 "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." -Ralph Waldo Emerson]]> 2021-10-12 23:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812220036 #8 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812929845 2021-10-13 05:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1812929845 #9 3515104 https://padlet.com/3515104/2jezi0vzffu0dbok/wish/1813058497 Throughout the transcendental movement, Emerson emphasized the importance of nature’s teaching’s of how to find perfect solitude, not covet, and think clearer, on an individual’s life, Thoreau emphasized the need for individuality and self reliance, and both combined their ideas to show the benefits of becoming a self thinker, such as advancing society and giving us the power to become “irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.”

Quotes:
"I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."- Henry David Thoreau

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