2. I have found a couple of romanticism parts in the Rip Van Winkle story. As he rose to
walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity.These mountain beds do not agree with me,” thought Rip, “and if thisfrolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle.” With some difficulty he got down into the glen: he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs." Rip had helped a man, got drunk and passed out basically.! When he woke he found himself old and stiff. He had been laying there for years but he thinks overnight. "WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains,
and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect
barometers." This is something that people would love to see or live around because they never say anything like this. They were only used to seeing dead horses in the road and trash everywhere.!3. This fits romanticism because it illustrates two of it main themes such as nature and imagination.
"To Nature's teachings, while from all around--
Earth and her waters, and the depths of air--
Comes a still voice--Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more"
This fits nature because this poems is saying things that are of nature.! It uses imagination because we know that nature can't actually talk to us but we have imagination to understand what is being told in the poem.!
"Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world--with kings,
The powerful of the earth--the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,"
This also falls under the romanticism category because it states common people. It is saying no matter who u were, when u die your equal with everyone else.!
4. Tennessee lost but The Falcons did too .!!! HAHAHAHAHA>!!! =)
5. "Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child." This is from the poem "Nature." I chose this as a transcendentalism because this man believes that the sun didn't mean anything to the grown people of society. They don't care because they have more important things like bills, groceries, children of their own and car notes.!
But he also believed that the sun ment much more to the children. When the suns out for the children it means a time they know they can play. He is saying that the sun is a precious thing that doesn't live on the outside but also in the inside for most people. His point is that the sun takes the children to another place not physically but emotionally and mentally. But not on this day 10/11/11.!!!
6."To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." This is an actual quote from the poem nature.! I can relate to this because I have a spot that I can go to and be alone which is in the wilderness. When your alone you can think more, you enjoy your own company, and no one bothers you.!
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." This is chosen because i feel that it is also good to be misunderstood. I feel that no one has to understand you as long as you understand yourself.! The people who were mentioned in the passage were all misunderstood BUT they were right.!
7. In the video he is saying that he was gone from the wild for a period of time but he feels great being back. He feels that the wilderness is the only place he can relax and where he can clear his thoughts without any distraction and other nonsense.! He is relating to Emerson's poems because he also feels the same way about nature. He also feels that nature is a place of tranquility.! He feels that nature calms down and erases a lot of negative thoughts and people.! "His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows." He is saying that nature covers your real problems, it heels you mentally but not phisically.
When we first began this unit I was a little familiar with romantism. Not so much that i could teach other people but as much as I felt I wanted to know.! But this unit was good, i liked it.! I learned that romantism can be nature, common people and imagination. Nature is a precious thing that many adore like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Dick Pronekke. These men enjoyed nature and its presence, they felt its the only thing that clears their minds. Common people are just regular folks like me and you. It takes imagination to really think and understand what these people believe.!!
