Emily Dickinson: Transcendentalist Experience Through Imagination


The early 19th century ideas of transcendentalism, which were introduced
by Ralph Emerson and David Thoreau, where man as an individual becomes
spiritually consumed with nature and himself through experience are contrasted
by Emily Dickinson, who chose to branch off this path by showing that a
transcendentalist experience could be achieved through imagination alone. These
three monumental writers set the boundaries for this new realm of thought.
Although these writers ideas were not similar, they all followed the simple idea
that "the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul" . The male perspective
seen through the works of Thoreau and Emerson, where nature "refers to essences
unchanged by man; the air, the river, the leaf" , is revised and satirized by
Dickinson's statement that "Of all the Souls that stand create-, I have elected-
One" . Dickinson's works were meant to taunt society by showing how a woman,......

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