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Introduction As the years move on, more poets, such as Dante and Petrarch, begin using another form of natural poetry called eclogue, which was created by Virgil in 37 B.C.E. This poetry incorporates peace and serenity into rural places where shepherds can converse. This poetry “become something of a requirement for young poets [because it was a] form they had to master before embarking upon great original work” (“Nature Poetry”). Traditional nature poetry took a different turn and had the strongest influence on transcendentalists like Thoreau and Frost when William Wordsworth proposed that poetry “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility (qtd. in “Nature Poems). The best way to find this tranquility is by going “into nature [to] observe the world… and translate…emotions and observations into verse,” which is exactly what Frost did (“Nature Poems”). Romantics are also keen in the wonderfulness of nature and its effect on life. From a Romantic‟s point of view, nature is a source of healthy feelings. “It is therapy for a diseased, overcivilized heart” (“Understanding of Nature”). Nature helps humans to find their emotional health, which can lead them to clarity, whether it is moral or spiritual. Self-identification is also a part of it. “Romantic „nature‟ is a vehicle for selfconsciousness” that either drives or carries a person to discover one‟s identity (“Understanding of Nature”). Robert W. Service is a poet that focuses on this in some of his poems, “My Cancer Cure” in particular. Nature can be a person‟s pathway to recovery and living a potential life, and Romantics are the ones that know it the best.
Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism is a movement rooted from Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, and began to branch out and impact religion, literature, society, and philosophers in New England from 1836-1860. This movement started with a reform approach in the Unitarian church, developed from the views of William Ellery Channing, and protested against the culture and society. Other than believing in the goodness of human and nature, transcendentalists believed that materialism, organized religion, and politics tainted individuals. “For the transcendentalists, the soul of each individual is identical with the soul of the world and contains what the world contains” (“American Transcendentalism”). “Unlike the Unitarians: they wanted to rejuvenate the mystical aspects of New England Calvinism…and to go back to Jonathan Edwards' "divine and supernatural light," imparted immediately to the soul by the spirit of God” (“American Transcendentalism”). One famous literary work of this time that sums up transcendentalism is Nature (1836) by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This essay demonstrates Emerson‟s appreciation towards all forms of nature, whether it is human nature or the natural world around him. Transcendentalists took everything out of society that corrupted individuals, and left what was beautiful and divine, that being nature.
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