Abdullah Yousuf by Abdullah

Transcendentalist Movement

abood_yousuf1 — 2015-12-16 01:34:54 UTC

Years it was active: 1820-1830

Origin: It was originated in America and Britain

Famous Poets:

Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Themes: Nature, Emotional, and Intensity

Style: Compressed forms, Rhyming, and Free verse

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, a lecturer, and he brought the transcendentalism movement of the mid-19 century. he has influenced a lot of people such as Emma Goldman, William James, and Marcel Proust.

Margaret Fuller-

Themes: Women Suffrage

Style: Free verse and essays

Margaret Fuller was an American journalist, a critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the transcendentalism movement. A famous quote from her was "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it" which meant that if you have a great idea, let others first say their ideas and then say yours so everyone can participate.

James Russell Lowell-

Themes: Nature and Education

Style: Rhyming and Free Verse

James was an American Romantic poet, a critic, diplomat, and an editor. He worked with the Fireside poets, a group or New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivalled the the popularity of the British.

William Ellery Channing:

Themes: Nature and Hope

Style: Rhyming and a lot of Stanzas

William was a Unitarian preacher in the United States in the mid-19 century which is when the transcenedentalism movements was made.

This poetic movement is usually described as the sixth sense and usually the themes of the movement is nature, hope, and the significant changes or actions that were currently happening at that time like women suffrage.

Analyzation

abood_yousuf1 — 2015-12-28 04:57:24 UTC

Economic:

Transcendentalists were strong believers in the power of the individual. Their beliefs are closely linked with those of the Romantics, but differed by an attempt to embrace, or at least, to not oppose the empiricism of science.

Social:

During its short lifespan from the mid-1830s to the late 1840s, Transcendentalism seemed to pose no real threat to the social and political institutions it opposed. The Transcendental movement was composed of a small group of intellectuals, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller. In hindsight, however, the Transcendentalists can be seen as forerunners of the enormous upheavals that were about to break out across the United States.

Religious:

They found the transcendentalism movement from the Romanticism and it certain people on the list and it grew throughout America and Europe.

Political:

This was a good idea because slavery is a very big thing and a very bad thing in a lot of countries so they forced to release all the slaves back to their fugitives.

Connections and Inspirations

abood_yousuf1 — 2015-12-30 06:03:45 UTC

There was a group of people who created the transcendentalism movement and those people included were also poets for the Romanticism Movement but there was one person named Henry David Thoreau, he began writing poetry about nature around 1817 with his mentor which was Ralph Waldo Emerson. he later wrote about his masterwork, Walden. the group of people that made this movement included Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The movement that came before the transcendentalism movement is the Dark Romantics' which came from the Romanticism movement and it accepted the transcendentalism movement because the poets were from the same movement but they just changed a few things about the movement.

Citations

abood_yousuf1 — 2016-01-01 08:30:04 UTC

Ushistory.org. "Transcendentalism, An American Philosophy [ushistory.org]." Ushistory.org. n.d. Web. 1 Jan. 2016.

Gura, Philip F.. "Transcendentalism and Social Reform | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History." Gilderlehrman.org. 31 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2016.

YouTube. "HENRY DAVID THOREAU'S FAVORITE POPULAR SONG: Tom Bowling ~ Welsh Tenor Ben Davies (c.1910?)." YouTube. 2 Aug. 2013. Web. 3 Jan. 2016.

"George Willis Cooke, comp. 1903. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology." Bartleby.com. n.d. Web. 3 Jan. 2016.

"The Savage State," Thomas Cole

abood_yousuf1 — 2016-01-02 08:51:42 UTC

I have chosen this artwork because almost all of the themes that the poets wrote about was nature and this piece of artwork presents a lot of things that the poets have written about such as the dark side and the bright side of nature and everything that happens around and the movement is kind of like a sixth sense so that can represent it.

Tom Bowling by Welsh Tenor Ben Davies

abood_yousuf1 — 2016-01-03 13:00:23 UTC

I chose this song because i read the description of it and it is henry David Thoreu's favorite song and when a man has a favorite song he would probably have an involvement in it and because he is a famous poet that was in the transcendentalism movement. Henry has performed this song and when he did the people could see that he put in his personality more and therefore it was a very close song to him. A lot of people remeber him because he had performed it in a lot of places to different audiences which relates back to the transcendentalism movement which poems were for everyone in the world but mostly Americans.

Poem Annotation: Winter by James Russell Lowell

abood_yousuf1 — 2016-01-03 13:11:12 UTC

Stanza 1: It first talks abou the animal that lives in winter and the thing it does when its winter which in the poem said "the bird sings not in winter time" and it also talks about what the bird hates which are bees. it starts giving an introduction about how winter begins and what the things are happening.

Stanza 2: The poet makes it into the birds perspective/life and explains what happens like the bird is alone flying to the north pole until one day it becomes a bitter day and the bird is scared so it hides under its wings. Its basically the life of the bird when the weather changes to winter.

Stanza 3: The perspective changes to the poet's perspective, it basically says that the people who didn't like him or did not understand him even though they hates him, they would sometimes enjoy the poems that he writes.

The theme that is mostly used in the poem is nature because it is basically about it since it talks about winter but also the animals in them and talking about earth.

Annotated Poem

abood_yousuf1 — 2016-01-03 15:09:48 UTC