LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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None of these.
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An individual can must break away to be truly alone. On the surface, readers and writers appear to be in a state of solitude, isolated from other individuals. However, although they are physically alone, they are not in fact solitary. Instead, they are accompanied (in their heads, at least) by the characters who come to life through the words on the page.
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An individual must retire from being alone just as much as they must retire from being in society. One can not truly be alone unless they know how to be alone while they are conversing with other people.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In his 1857 essay, ‘Society and Solitude, ’ Ralph Waldo Emerson contrasts society, or fellowship with other people, and solitude, or being alone. He describes an encounter with a humorist, who craved solitude and shunned the social community. For Emerson, solitude is a mark of genius.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which best summarizes the role of conversation expressed in Society and Solitude? Conversation has the power to either affirm or destroy the connections between people.
Detailed explanation-3: -When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet.
Detailed explanation-4: -“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”