LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Emerson implies that nature reflects human nature, and cities and villages do not.
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Emerson implies that a life of ascetic solitude is far greater than a social life.
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Emerson implies that nature nurtures us while the cities harm us.
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Emerson implies that nature is good, and that cities can be good as well.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is the implicit message about city life in” in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages"? He implied that nature reflects human nature; towns do not.
Detailed explanation-2: -For Emerson, nature is not God but the body of God’s soul-"nature, ” he writes, is “mind precipitated.” Emerson feels that to fully realize one’s role in this respect is to be in paradise. He ends “Nature” with these words: “Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form.
Detailed explanation-3: -Emerson asserts throughout Nature the primacy of spirit over matter. Nature’s purpose is as a representation of the divine to promote human insight into the laws of the universe, and thus to bring man closer to God.
Detailed explanation-4: -Emerson uses spirituality as a major theme in the essay. Emerson believed in re-imagining the divine as something large and visible, which he referred to as nature; such an idea is known as transcendentalism, in which one perceives a new God and a new body, and becomes one with his or her surroundings.
Detailed explanation-5: -Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one, and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.