AMERICAN LITERATURE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON

New civilizations are always essential pathways to development of literature and art. However transforming yet another nation’s culture and ethics would necessarily not tend to innovations. To structure American society and literature, understanding political influences, tangential approach to the European Literature & poetic interferences are extremely vital. Taking a way that’s new in everything; especially in defining the literature of a developing nation was indeed a revolution. Conventional definitions were put out of place and the surge of a new meaning to the nation’s geography, ethics and culture encouraged many writers to become expert authors. A lot of others went on to shape and color the American literature with entirely new methods of writing. Cutting down on the European tinge, the thrill of articulating the theme became the trend of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, fondly called EMERSON was one of the chief inaugrators of literature in America. His brilliance reflected in bringing a 19^th century reform called TRANSCENDENTALISM. Something that Emerson never failed was to kindle the spirits of a common man. Emerson emphasized the presentation of older thoughts in a completely novel sense of logic such that the content never fades away. Yes, influenced however, his writings incorporated a fair amount of Neo-Platonism and Scottish realism of Europe.

Inviting mystic entities to work, Emerson put forth the concept of natural and the Supernatural. He strongly believed that the OVER SOUL or the SPIRIT always connected to man thru intuition and behavior. The most striking feature of Emerson’s writing was seeking similarity in unlike entities. Through his poem “EACH AND ALL” he clearly states that every single item on earth has an undeniable dependence on things around in a loose connection of poetic parts. Many readers weren’t ready to take it as they expected a sense of strong poetic structure rather than prose. Criticism rose to open the notion that Emerson’s poems were feeble enough not to present a heavier sense of poetic method. With a series of essays in his journal “THE DIAL” Emerson shot to fame with his descriptive and modal writing. Thus termed as versatile, affluent and technically apt, Emerson’s prose ruled every reader.

It was Emerson who introduced the Hindu doctrine to explain the philosophical face of natural living. Moving deeper, Emerson also instituted the use of Vedanta philosophy and Indian culture. As always, Emerson truly believed that a poet needs a perfect relationship with his intuitive spirit to understand himself and only then he would be able to render it right to his target audience.

With stunning pack of logic,deep philosophical connections and spontaneous penning Emerson is a King instigator of American Literature.