EJHEAA
Vol. 1 No. 6 (2024): European Journal of Higher Education and Academic Advancement

THE EVOLUTIONARY DIALECTIC OF NATURE: A STUDY IN RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S THE SNOW-STORM

Aida Thamer Salloom (AL-Muthanna University)
Enas Jaafar Jawad (University of Baghdad)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Jun 2024

Abstract

The forefather of Transcendentalism or the American Romanticism that pervaded the political and literary scene of America in the mid-19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson is a prolific and distinguished American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet. He strived to create a new American spirit, a new cultural basis and a heroic narrative that maintain an elevation of the American self. Though simple in their language and poetic diction, Emerson's essays and poems reflect his philosophical and thoughtful ideas in a dignified and melodious system. The study attempts to explore Emerson's appreciation to the dynamic, creative and evolutionary power of nature, advocating a unity between man and nature to help develop his intuition and regain his divine knowledge. Having a qualitative method, the study presents a reverent consideration to Emerson's essay Nature as a basic theoretical part for his concepts of the power of nature. A practical exemplification of Transcendentalism and the connectedness between nature and the human experience is thoroughly presented in the analysis of Emerson's poem "The Snow-Storm

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EJHEAA

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Education

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European Journal of Higher Education and Academic Advancement is an open-access, peer-reviewed international journal that offers comprehensive coverage of theoretical and empirical studies of higher education in Europe, comparative research within Europe, and comparisons between European and ...