https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q en-us 2017-01-11 14:26:12 UTC 2026-01-19 11:41:46 UTC hello@padlet.com 1436959 https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146516237 Composed of an introduction and eight chapters, Nature, Emerson’s first book, contains all the fundamental ideas that were to be developed at length later in his life. The dominant theme of this work—the harmony between humans and nature—also became the theoretical basis of many literary works composed after it in the nineteenth century United States.]]> 2017-01-11 14:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146516237 1436959 https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146517831 In "Self-Reliance," philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson argues that polite society has an adverse effect on one's personal growth. Self-sufficiency, he writes, gives one the freedom to discover one's true self and attain true independence.]]> 2017-01-11 14:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146517831 1436959 https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146518355 Emerson is embracing a message of have a dualistic perspective on the world. Each individual should have their own perspective of the universe. ]]> 2017-01-11 14:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146518355 1436959 https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146521806 In "Self Reliance", it says that self reliance is like a virtue. Relying on ones self  is showing some amounts of independence, and how it isn't a bad thing.]]> 2017-01-11 14:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146521806 1436959 https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146522652 "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes." (pg. 214]]> 2017-01-11 14:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146522652 1436959 https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146528342 "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him till." (pg. 215)]]> 2017-01-11 15:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146528342 1436959 https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146530699 "Nature" and "Self-Reliance" represent Transcendentalism because they both focus on embracing nature and one's self in order to understand the universe that they live in.]]> 2017-01-11 15:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1436959/j2w7y4bqjh1q/wish/146530699