What is Transcendentalism?
Decades when Transcendentalism began in America.
What are the 1830's and 1840's
"To go into_____ a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society."
What is solitude?
Thoreau wanted to live deep and suck the ____ out of life.
What is "marrow"?
"envy is ignorance; imitation is _________"
What is "suicide?"
"The government is best which governs _____."
What is least?
This person can be considered the "father" of Transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
These come out every night and awaken a sense of awe.
What are the stars?
a word (beginning with S) that Thoreau uses repeatedly to urge us to reduce our affairs and make our lives less complicated
What is "simplicity" or "simplify"?
Emerson urges that instead of following what society does, we should be ______ and follow what we want.
What is a "nonconformist?"
Thoreau protested this war in the late 1840s.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The Transcendentalists believed that God could be found here.
What are Nature and within each individual?
People own farms and fields, but no one owns this.
What is the landscape?
How long Henry David Thoreau lived in his cabin at Walden Pond.
What is 2 years, 2 months and 2 days.
Emerson argues against ______, which he defines as "a reverence for our past act or word."
What is "consistency"?
Thoreau compares voting to what?
What is a game?
The chief aim of Transcendentalism is to recognize this within ourselves.
What is our inner-voice or intuition.
"In the woods a man may cast off his years and is always a _________."
What is a child?
The best part of Thoreau's day--when he is most awake.
What is the morning?
In talking about conformity and being able to anticipate the argument of an individual, Emerson uses this example.
What is a preacher in a church?
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a ______"
What is a "prison" or jail?
the intuition within each of us is part of this larger, metaphysical reality
What is the Over-Soul?
what we become when all mean egotism vanishes and we are part or partical of God
What is a transparent eyeball?
Thoreau used this metaphor to declare he didn't want to live a confined, hidden life, preferring instead to be "on the deck of the world."
What is a "cabin passage?"
"To be great is to be ___________"
What is "misunderstood"?
"But a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in ________."
What is humanity?