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transcendentalism from emerson to mccandless lit test
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12/03/2011

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____is a profit.
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emerson
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What are three secrets to emerson's work?
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stands still, listens to his heart, and works as he listens
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America's example of democracy inspired the French to do what?
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overthrow their own monarchy
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Where was Emerson born? When?
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Boston in 1835
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Emerson grew up in ____and attended ___-for college.
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concord, mass ; harvard
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Emerson's father was a ______. He had ___brothers and sisters.
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pastor; five
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Emerson's mother was determiend to get emerson a good education so she sent him to _____.
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boston latin school
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Emerson grew up in a world of_____.
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women
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Emerson's mother was a model for _____. She taught him ______.
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self reliance; individual inspiration
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HOw old was emerson when he attended harvard?
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14
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Emerson preached at the ______.
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harvard divinity school
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Emerson served as a ____at various churches in new england.
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part time supply teacher
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Who was Emerson's wife?
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ellen louisa tucker
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Emerson became a chaplain of the ______.
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massachusetts legislature
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In 1831, emerson's wife ellen died of ____at the age of ____.
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tuberculosis; 19
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What was emerson's definition of religion?
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relation of the sould to god
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In September 1832, emerson resigned his minsistry from the second church and he eventually became financially unstable so he decided to ____
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sale for europe
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Emerson's atttention was drawn to the _____. He was immersed in ____and _____.
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natural and cultural beauty of the world; beauty and philosophy
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Italy overwhelmed Emerson with ___and Paris overwhelmed him with ____.
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art; science
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in 1835, Emerson married ______ and had a son named ____- and published his first book known as ____in 1836.
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lydia jackson; waldo; nature
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What was the name of the education movement that emerson was extremely involved with?
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lyceum movement
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emerson was against ______.
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studying books
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Emerson writes in _____.
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aphoristic style
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What is an aphorism?
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a pointed statement expressing some wise opinion about life
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What was the paradox that emerson referred to?
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transparent eyeball
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What is transcendece?
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when you rely on your own intution
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Emerson is a philospher. who puts his ideas into practice?
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thoreau
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Thoreau goes and builds a house at _____and wrote a book called _______and wrote journals that eventaully became known as _____.
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walden pond; "a week on the concord and merrimack rivers" ; "walden"
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What is it ccalled when you have the responsibility to resist laws that you don't agree with?
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civil disobedience
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Thoreau didn't want to pay a tax for the ____.
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mexican war
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All of whitman's brother were named after____.
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american heroes
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Whitman's father was a _____, ____, and _____.
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farmer, carpenter, and unsuccessful real estate spectator
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Whitman's father took him out of school at age ____.
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eleven
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At age ___, whitman fled his father's dark shadow and went to _____.
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21; new york city
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Whitman loved the ____because humanity was flowing.
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city
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Whitman loved the ____because humanity was flowing.
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city
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Whitman was probably ____.
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gay
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In 1848, whitman leaves the newspaper where he works and goes to ____and comes back to new york and joins the _____.
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new orldeans; free soil movement
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Whitman's book was called ____.
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leaves of grass
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whitman's poetry was open and he celebrated ______.
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sexuality
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Whitman was a poet of ____ and he expected people to be ____by his work.
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democracy; healed
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Whitman writes another book called _____.
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drum taps
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What were emerson's two setbacks in into the wild?
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he couldn't get passed the river and he misidentifies some seeds
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Where was john krakauer born and when?
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1954 in covallis, oregon
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krakauer loves the ____.
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outdoors
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in 1977, krakauer makes a three week trip to alaska to see the ____.
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stikine icecap
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Krakauer was associated with ______.
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outside magazine
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In 1996, krakauer climbed ____.
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mt everest
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Krakauer's third book was ____and his fourth book was called _____and it was based on his trip to mt everest.
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into the wild; into thin air
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When did the transcendentalism movement occur?
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1835-1860
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Transcendentalism comes from _____.
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romanticism
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Transcendentalism is ____and _____.
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spiritual and philosophical
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Who "sets seeds" for transcendentalism?
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immanuel kant
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Basic truths of transcendentalism reached _____ rather than reason.
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intuition
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Transcend your ____to reach and enlightend state.
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senses
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man, universe, and nature are intertwined and connected by the universal sould known as the____.
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oversoul
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Through ______and ______in nature, man can connect to something greater.
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communion and meditation
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____and_____are keys to spirtual truth.
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self reliance and individualism
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Every individual has value for ____and _____.
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potential and connection to oversoul
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What was Whitman's full name?
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Andrew Jackson Whitman
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What is Whitman's poem known as song of myself written in? (style)
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free verse
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O captain my captain is written by _____ is about this important historical figure:______and takes place during the _____.
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whitman; abe lincoln; civil war
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Why does Whitman admire lincoln?
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because he wanted to heal the country which is what whitman wanted to do too
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What is the name of whitman's most famous poem?
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o captain my captain
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What is thanatopsis?
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a meditation about death
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What is Whitman's full name?
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Andrew Jackson Whitman
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Who wrote Thantopsis?
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William cullen bryant
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Henry David Thoreau lived from ____to_____.
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1817 to 1862
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Ralph Waldo Emerson lived from _____ to____.
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1803 to 1882
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Where did Krakauer attend college?
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Hampshire college
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Who did Krakauer marry?
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Linda Mariam Moore
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William Cullen Bryant lived from____ to _____.
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1794 to 1878
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Where was Bryant born?
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Cummington, Massachusetts
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"let us demand our own work and laws and worship"
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nature (emerson)
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"I am nothing. I see all"
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nature (emerson)
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"The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental. To be brothers, to be acquaintances--master or servant, is then a trifle and adisturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.
Definition
Nature
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is igornance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion..."
Definition
self-reliance
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What is the name of emerson's most famous poem?
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self reliance
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"absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being..."
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self reliance
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"a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
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self-reliance
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"We denote this primary wisdom a tuition, whilst all later teachings are tutition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common orgin. For the sense of being which calm hours rises, we know not how, in the is not diverse from things, from space, light , from time, from man,...."
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self reliance
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"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."
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frienship
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"life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question"
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experience
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"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom"
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expereince
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"so far a a man thinks, he is free"
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fate
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"Far the best part, I repeat, of every mind is not that which he knows, but that which hovers in gleams, suggestions, tantalizing, unpossessed, before him...."
Definition
the journals
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out of the incident with throeau not wanting to pay the tax for the mexican war, he wrote an essay called_____.
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civil disobedience
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when, when i came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life..."
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where i lived and what i lived for
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"...ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain...."
Definition
where i lived and what i lived for
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Why does thoreau leave the woods?
Definition
so nothing will become habit and he wants to try something new
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"if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them...."
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conclusion
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Are transcendentalists optomists or pessimists?
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optomists
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"love your life as poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling glorious hours, even in a poorhouse."
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conclusion
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"And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, and i say there is nothing greater than the mother of men"
Definition
song of myself
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What does abeyance mean?
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not just following the past
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"I sound my barbaric yaws over the roofs of the world."
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song of myself
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Of physiology from top to toe I sing, not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worhty for the muse..."
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one's self i sing
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"I staunch the blood temporarily, the youngster's face is white as a lily..."
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a march in the ranks, hard-prest
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who is the narrator in a march in the ranks, hard prest?
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a soldier
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What is the first photographed war? who was the photographer?
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civil war; matthew brady
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"I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin"
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reconciliation
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song of myself
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walt whitman
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one's self I sing
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whitman
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i hear america singing
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whitman
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when i heard the learned astronomer
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whitman
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a noisless patient soldier
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whitman
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O me! o life"
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whitman
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beat! beat! drums!
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whitman
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a march in the ranks, hard-prest
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whitman
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o captain my captain
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whitman
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reconciliation
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whitman
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thanantopsis
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bryant
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walden
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thoreau
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where i lived and what i lived for
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throeau
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sounds
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thoreau
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brute neighbors
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thoreau
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the pond in winter
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thoreau
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spring
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thoreau
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conclusion
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thoreau
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nature
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emerson
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self reliance
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emerson
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friendship
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emerson
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experience
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emerson
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fate
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emerson
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the journals
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emerson
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