Tenets Of Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that arose as a reaction to the general state of intellectualism and spirituality during the late 1820s and 1830s. (Lewis) The tenets of transcendentalism are non-conformity, self-reliance, confidence, civil disobedience, importance of nature, and to simplify life. (Lingle) The major people associated with transcendentalism were Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Putnam, and Margaret Fuller. (Adherance) The major works associated with transcendentalism are Walden, The Transcendentalist, Self-Reliance, and Nature. (Goodreads) “The Road Not Taken” is an example of transcendentalism because it exhibits features of non-conformity and to simplify life. It is an example of non-conformity