Nature

Self-Reliance
11.2.1 - Analyze both the features and the
rhetorical (persuasive) devices of different types of
public documents, such as policy statements,
speeches, or debates, and the way in which
authors use those features and devices.
11.2.5 - Analyze an authors implicit and explicit
assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
11.3.4 - Analyze ways in which poetry or prose
uses imagery, personification, figures of speech,
and sounds to evoke readers emotions.

1803-1882
From a poor but
cultured family
Expected to go to
Harvard and become
a minister (like the 8
generations before
him)
Harvard 14

Became minister and married
1
st
wife died of tuberculosis
2
nd
wife died when she caught her dress on fire
Clung to religion and referenced death in poetry

After 1
st
death, he left congregation and
went to Europe

Came back and
began giving lectures
New Pulpit
Shattered when 5 yr
old son died he
never recovered from
the loss
Got Alzheimers and
lost memories and
words


Saw the advantages, freedom, and energy
that comes from young land
Appealed to intellectuals and general
public
Not as difficult to understand as people
claim
Considered a poet, even when writing
essays

OVER-SOUL
Individual
Souls
Individual
Souls
Individual
Souls
America must remove
themselves from the
shackles of the past
and move forward to
new ideas
Rejected
institutionalized
religion and strived for
personal religion
use intuition, not
scholars

Imagery- details that appeal to the senses
He SHOWS us nature, not just tells us


Aphorism short statements that express
wise or clever observations about life