ENGL 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalism
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Dr. garrett fall 2016 notes for exam 1 (lecture #4) A literary and philosophical movement asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality transcending the empirical and known through intuition. Monism unity of god and creation. The micro/macro in the least there is the most. The brahma (hindu god over creation) claims to have knowledge that the reader doesn"t. He describes how the whole universe is interconnected and how he is at the center of all its knowledge. Each stanza contains a new, separate illustration. Emerson attempts to show how adverse the world can be to true beauty. By the end, he turns away from beauty. Claims that it cannot be found upon the earth. Yet nature takes him over and he becomes one with it. A person took a sparrow home because they loved the sound of its singing, yet now the bird no longer sings with joy.
