Romanticism and Transcendentalism essays

Romanticism and Transcendentalism essays Nature, as William Cullen Bryant pointed out, speaks a various language in its many changes and so serves the imagination as an expression of our own inner changes. (p. 123-124) Nature is a part of each and every single one of us. Especially for the Romantics and Transcendentalists. They had their own theories on life and how everything works around it. The Romantics and Transcendentalists believed in the strength of the individual and through that learned the true meaning of life. The same theories where brought upon us in the movie Phenomenon. The Romantics believed that people found truth from within their own senses and everything happens for a certain reason. He who, from zone to zone, guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, in the long way that I must tread alone, will lead my steps aright. (p. 151) George also believed that the light shinned upon him because the world was trying to tell him something he never knew before. He believed that it didn't matter if a person was lost in their thoughts or did not know what to do with life, because there was always an answer and the one above will always guide everyone. Both the Romantics and the Transcendentalists believed in the strength of the individual or in other words, non conformity. That is basically one of the reasons why George did not fit into the town when he went through the changes. Society does not like changes, it likes to stay normal and constant with minimum changes. Transcendentalists believed that everything and everyone is made up of the earth. They believe that one is not 16 or 17 years old, but one is as old as this universe. Transcendentalists also believed in the over soul and finding truth from spiritual aspects. That spirit is one and not compound; that spirit does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritual ...