Transcendetalism vs Antitranscendentalism

Throughout literature’s history, authors have shown deeper ideas than the common person has. Transcendentalism, is the belief that human senses can know only physical reality and that if you explore nature you would come to know yourself as well as the universe, is one of these ideas. “The Rhodora” by Ralph Waldo Emerson is truly a transcendental work. Another idea is the opposite, Anti-transcendentalism, which focused more on the limitations and destructiveness of the human spirit. The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an anti-transcendentalist work.

The Rhodora is clearly a transcendentalist poem. This poem is about human beings respectively sharing the ...