LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
Question
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Walt Whitman was a revolutionary American poet who embodied the characteristics of the Romantic movements through his work.
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Walt Whitman’s work was very different from other poets of the time and he enjoyed experimenting with language in unusual ways.
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Walt Whitman was one of the first artists to popularize the ideas of Romanticism and Transcendentalism in Europe.
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Walt Whitman’s work was a direct rejection of popular movements within Romanticism, as he believed that they oppressed artists’ natural expression.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Whitman’s personal beliefs most closely resembled Transcendentalism and he was well versed in the work of Emerson, but he also had a broad understanding of American and European religious traditions, language, and symbolism, which he used stylistically in his poetry.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following statements best explains why Romanticism and Transcendentalism rejected industrialism? Romanticism and Transcendentalism highly valued the power of nature and industrialism was a threat to the natural world.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or rhythm may emerge in free-verse lines, but the poet does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition.
Detailed explanation-4: -Transcendentalism, which lasted from about 1830 to 1860, was a vital part of the Romantic movement. Ralph Waldo Emerson was its putative leader. Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller were among the principals of the movement.
Detailed explanation-5: -Walt Whitman has long been celebrated as a Romantic writer who celebrates the self, reveres Nature, claims unity in all things, and sings praises to humanity.