Transcendentalism Challenge by LILY ANNA GUTIERREZ https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k en-us 2021-10-08 05:21:38 UTC 2025-10-30 01:38:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 1A. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803207122 “After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make. All memorable events, I should say, transpure in morning time and in a morning atmosphere.”

]]> 2021-10-08 19:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803207122 1B. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803215032 “Some of my townsmen, it is true, can remember and have described to me some walks which they took ten years ago, in which they were so blessed as to lose themselves for half an hour in the woods; but I know very well that they have confined themselves to the highway ever since, whatever pretensions they may make to belong to this select class. No doubt they were elevated for a moment as by the reminiscence of a previous state of existence when even they were foresters and outlaws.”

]]> 2021-10-08 19:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803215032 1C. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803223626  “In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, - he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight.”


]]> 2021-10-08 19:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803223626 1D. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803229795 “The production of a world of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity. A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. 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.”]]> 2021-10-08 19:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803229795 1E. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803237690 “My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it is genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”]]> 2021-10-08 19:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1803237690 2A. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1811507632 The poem by Walt Whitman follows the question of resistance in the form of mass conformity to oblivious ignorance. He suggests that the individual is bound to lose all faith when they realize their singular efforts will never strike drastic change in the greater scope of society. So the individuals, those who have lost all strength in resisting, conform to the likes of the majority against their better judgment. The wise minority surrenders and the hope of any reformation is lost. The film Dead Poets Society demonstrates the drastic decisions of the individual in the face of direct oppression, where Neil finally comprehended the life he was living was not his own, and the only way out was to end it. ]]> 2021-10-12 17:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1811507632 2B. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1811519054 2021-10-12 17:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1811519054 3. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1811813828 It is a universal fear to be forgotten, to be brushed away like any other grain of sand and to wait for the last memories stored in living minds to fade out of existence. The trouble is determining how we ought to be remembered, and how we are to ensure that the world never omits the impression we left behind. If we spend all our years following the path of survival alone, we fail to acknowledge our greater purpose and remain only as echoes of our true selves. To stray from what is laid out for us, diverging from the road taken by those merely blundering their way through life, and deliberately creating a separate path dedicated to our remembrance is what we all must strive to achieve. I wish not for history to remember me as simply another tolerable student or an adequate, averagely content adult. I have always sought to express myself through my artwork, and such is the commemoration I hope will hold for me when I am gone. I want the messages hidden beneath my works to be forever decrypted by fresh minds and for their meanings never to fade. I aspire to be regarded as one of history's great minds, those able to convey their innermost enlightened thoughts through complex color and shape. No living thing is eternal, for we wither away until we perish, forever laid to rest. The impressions we make, however, are timeless. They are infinite in their continuance and everlasting by nature. This is how I wish to be memorialised, not by name or being but by my arts immortal imprint upon the world. ]]> 2021-10-12 19:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1811813828 4. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1811862302 Silence is a blessing, one yet difficult to find
In settings such as this
As we bustle through the crowded hallways of modern life
It can be strenuous to stay clear of mind
There is no fault in keeping silent
It only means that I don’t have a reason to speak
I have other means of conveying myself 
Much as Mother Nature talks through her rushing rivers and creeks
On verbal communication, I am not completely reliant

As I carve the colors into shapes
And allow myself to disengage
My innermost thoughts manifest into reality
As brush touches canvas
As pencil touches page
I need not words to express my desires
I need not squabble to show what I believe to be true
I am revealed through what I create
When my hands are one with my mind
And the deepest contemplation flows forward
In form of various shades and vibrant hues

So if they truly wish to know my story
If they are yet willing to unravel the tapestry of my masked face
Let them observe first the products of my passion
And decipher the cryptic messages hidden beneath the surface
Disclosing what they genuinely embrace

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This hashtag relates to the tenant of transcendentalism dealing with the importance of reconnecting with nature in order to enlighten one's mind. ]]> 2021-10-13 01:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1812510900 7A. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1812680303 2021-10-13 02:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1812680303 7B. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1812691815 2021-10-13 03:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1812691815 7C. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1812699907 2021-10-13 03:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1812699907 8. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1813054203 2021-10-13 06:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1813054203 9. 3516422 https://padlet.com/3516422/fsmeir73yu72mx6k/wish/1813073768 Thoreau and Emerson suggest that by thinking and living our lives for ourselves, by our views and opinions and no one else's, we better contribute to the wise minority of society rather than the obliviously ignorant majority. 
 -"My life is for itself and not for spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than it should be glittering and unsteady. "
 -"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -that is genius." 
-"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight."

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