Part one of term paper
Ralph Waldo Emerson stresses the theme of nature in most of his literary works. He was the first of his fathers side of the family to not become a Unitarian minister like his father, or his clergyman ancestors dating back to the time of the Puritans. In my opinion, and many others opinions, made him a non-conformist which he called, “S ...

Part two of term paper
... authority and to rely instead on direct experience. “Trust thyself,” Emerson’s motto. 1 This he believed was a step toward the recognition of the God within us. Each human being represented the embodiment of spirit, and that human possibilities were limitless. He placed us “inside” the world in a new way. Such as in the poem Fable, the squirrel said to the mountain, “If I cannot carry a forest on my back, neither can you crack a nut” (lines 18 and 19). In this poem, Emerson was ...