1. Individualism
2. Emotions/Feelings/Imagination
3. Relative and Moral Ethnics

1. Remote Location
2. Plot involves Violence
3. Supernatural/ Worldly Elements
4. Characters suffer under physcological torment

4 aspects of Transcendentalism

1. Follow your intuition ( gut feeling )
2. Simplify Your life ( eliminate Clutter)
3. Use nature as a source of inspiration and as a model ( Instictual)
4. Open your mind to idea of relative truth

• Feeling of something being grand
• Caused  by nature
• Examples: Canyons, Niagra Falls

• 1783-1859
• Wrote headless horseman and Rip Van Winkle
• 1st american writer to acheive an international reputation
• studied law at 16 but never showed joy about it
• had a passion for writting
• writing European legends since he was an american abroad
• Ivring stopped writting fiction due to Tales of a Traveler (included devil and tom walker)
• Died at 76

“Psalm of Life”

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”

Edgar Allan Poe

“The Fall of the House of Usher”

“The Raven”

Henry David Thoreau

“Walden”

“Civil Disobedience”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Self-Reliance”

Satire

Imagery

Enjambment

Unity of Effect

Symbol

Mood

Onomatopoeia

Definition: deliberately

Definition: decorum