LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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He compares it to touching the bottom of the lake.
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He compares it to flying like birds.
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He compares it to swimming like a fish.
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He compares it to playing a musical instrument.
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Detailed explanation-1: -She agrees, and out on the water, Henry tries to explain Transcendentalism to her. He explains to Ellen that she loves her father, and always will, even if he is not beautiful or talented, and cannot fly like a bird or swim like a fish. She loves something about him that transcends what he actually is.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalism refers to self – sufficiency of the human mind and the creative power of man. It spoke for an or-der of truth that transcended by immediate perception, all external evidence. Thoreau believed in all this and saw the manifestation of God in Nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -He uses the example of her father and the water. she doesn’t love her father because he is handsome or talented, her love for him transcends his physical reality. Similarly, her arm can’t touch the bottom of the lake, but she can transcend the limitation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thoreau was a leading figure in the Transcendentalist movement which held, as one of its premises, that the human connection with nature is necessary for intellectual and moral stability.
Detailed explanation-5: -In his essay Walden, Thoreau affirms the Transcendentalist belief of living simply by emphasizing the thought of living with only the essentials and the importance of self reliance. Thoreau supports the ideal of living simply through the emphasis of only living with what one needs.