LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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He just renewed his relationship with his wife
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He finished writing his essay “on Nature”
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He is standing on the bare ground, his head bathed by air
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He is standing on top of a tall building
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Detailed explanation-1: -[1] Under what circumstances does “mean egotism” vanish, according to Emerson? “Mean egotism” vanishes when the human body feels at rest and is with nature in one.
Detailed explanation-2: -Under what circumstances, according to Emerson, does “mean egotism” vanish? When he is standing on bare ground in the wind and uplifted into infinite space-aka completely enveloped by nature, and becomes a transparent eyeball.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1836, in his essay Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson described the powerful effect that being in woods had on him: “Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Under what circumstances, according to Emerson, does nature appear to be melancholy and sad? Nature can have such a look when the person viewing nature is feeling melancholy and sad.
Detailed explanation-5: -Emerson states that when he himself stands in the woods, he feels the Universal Being flowing through him. This notion of the Universal Being, which he identifies with God, is what many readers identify as transcendentalism.