https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj By: Jacob Molina, Payton Bushur, and Alyson Brown en-us 2017-03-11 21:25:17 UTC 2024-11-24 09:48:17 UTC hello@padlet.com jacob0113 https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/159500449 To THE garden, the world, anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious, here behold my resurrection, after slumber; The revolving cycles, in their wide sweep, having brought me again, Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all wondrous; My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous; Existing, I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present—content with the past, By my side, or back of me, Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same.]]> 2017-03-12 15:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/159500449 jacob0113 https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/159500575 This poem reflects the transcendentalist ideal in that it truly emphasizes the relation between humans and a nature. This notion is supported in the poem when Whitman states that, "To THE garden, the world, anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons. . .". In that excerpt, Whitman is explaining how all that is life arises from "the garden", which is representative of nature. Whitman also mentions Eve, from the story of The Garden of Eden, in the poem. Although not apparent, Eve is the perfect symbol of transcendentalism. She is truly one with god and nature, just as most transcendentalists are. She also represents the idea of non-conformity, in when she took the apple even after being told that she was forbidden to do as much. She is also a good representation of the ideal of independence, in that she follows her own path and does what she wishes to do in life. Whitman's placing of Eve in this poem, and how he states that he is following her is a true testament to his belief in transcendental ideology, "By my side, or back of me, Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same.". After analyzing the context of the poem, and realizing the Eve is herself a symbol of transcendentalism, it is apparent that Whitman respected, and valued the ideals of transcendentalistic ideology. He follows it as if it were the rules of life, which is what was meant by "Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same."]]> 2017-03-12 15:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/159500575 jacob0113 https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/159516121 2017-03-12 18:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/159516121 jacob0113 https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160130297 Almost all transcendentistic writings and authors emphasize the bigger picture. The big two transcendentalist thinkers Emerson and Thoreau emphasized the individual, civil disobedience, nonconformity, unity with nature, humanity, freedom, and self reliance. Many of these ideas can be seen throughout this poem by Walt Whitman. The first idea that can be seen, is that of unity with and the beauty of nature. In the poem, it can be assumed that Whitman is speaking of nature when he states "Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the aesthetic". These ideas of the beauty and philosophical attributes of nature are extremely similar to what Thoreau was talking about in his famous piece called Walden.  Another transcendentalistic idea that arises in this poem, is that of freedom. This specific notion of freedom was first mentioned by Emerson in his famous piece "Self Reliance". Whitman adapts this idea into this poem by stating "Who contains believers and disbelievers". This quote reflects Whitman's belief - and the belief of most transcendentalists- that the world and all that is life, in every situation, is and will forever consist of two sides; never just one. This idea branches into the very fundamental notion that there is never one true understanding to anything in life, that the very force of life and everything it governs is, and will forever remain a mystery. Which is why accepting everything that is told to you, and blindly following the rest of the world is wrong; every man, woman, and child should create their own path, live their own life, and form their own ideas and opinions, because that is true living, which is the ultimate Transcendental ideal.]]> 2017-03-14 23:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160130297 jacob0113 https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160132062 Who contains believers and disbelievers—Who is the most majestic lover; Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic, or in intellectual, Who, having consider'd the Body, finds all its organs and parts good; Who, out of the theory of the earth, and of his or her body, understands by subtle analogies all other theories, The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of These States; Who believes not only in our globe, with its sun and moon, but in other globes, with their suns and moons; Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day, but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations, The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.]]> 2017-03-15 00:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160132062 jacob0113 https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160146834 2017-03-15 02:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160146834 jacob0113 https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160525135 Metaphor: Whitman compares the world to a garden
Free Verse: This poem is unrhymed no rules are followed
Imagery:The quivering fire within his arms paints a picture
Point Of View: This poem comes from Whitmans point of view in the Garden
Symbol: The Garden is used in place of the Earth itself and Eve is a symbol of Transcendentalism
Setting: The garden is the Earth so i believe this to be another day on earth that he chose to write about in the Transcendentalist ideology




]]> 2017-03-16 13:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160525135 jacob0113 https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160530223 Metaphor: The city is a poem, this is a comparison without like or as
Personification: calling the earth a him or her and describing attributes like spirituality and realism belonging to the earth
Free Verse: This poem has no rhyme or regular meter
Symbol: referring to the Earth as Who and never actually saying the Earth
Imagery: a mental picture is formed when reading about this globe and other globes with a sun and a moon
Characterization: Characterizing the Earth and Mother Nature to be "The most majestic lover"]]> 2017-03-16 13:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jacob0113/r9g4ys2bblsj/wish/160530223