Monday, October 8, 2007

Would I label Dickinson as a Transcendentalist?

I would absolutely label Emily Dickinson as a transcendentalist. He speaks of nature numorous times. He also does not care of what people think of him as a individual, like for instance on pg 86 XX, Dickinson speaks of drinking and getting drunk and not caring about what people think of him. He also compares heaven, shadows, and nature together in the reading XXXI in Day 1. But the whole point of Emersons and Thoreaus thoughts were individualism and nature, and Dickinson definatetly uses nature and indivdualism in his entries.

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