Final Transcendental Blog

I feel that this blog helped me record my thoughts in a style and medium that allowed a further exploration of those thoughts. At times I may have struggled with depicting the complexity and grasping the jist of the reading. At times I had a hard enough time reading! However, I feel that this blog allowed me to grasp a deeper feeling of the movement and works associated with transcendentalism. I wish to retain these thoughts and ruminations and revive them in the future, outside in the "uncommon school" when my mind is most at ease to try and absorb them. I can think of Thoreau's Walden while up hiking or camping and really work at noticing and appreciating some of the more delicate and microscopic occurrences of nature and realize how they compete the most epic events in human history. When studying different interpretations of gender and the struggle for equality I can use Fuller as a reference and consider her progressive building blocks. I can use many of the other writings we read in my pursuit of a more complete understanding of American literature and literature as a whole. With the good taste of transcendentalism in my brain I wish this blog to end. I am excited to see the progression from transcendentalism to the thought processes that will have its traces throughout the fictional works we are to read. I am excited to leave the transcendentalists depiction of the world-creatively and enter the creative world. So, with a positive note of the transcendentalists, and feeling relieved to move on, I wish this blog not to end here but in further thought considering more topics of 19th century lit.