... energy, producing some of the greatest works of all time. Such works include, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe's short stories (Hurley 13, 15). Each American romantic adopted his own style and theme. However, all were unified by a common ... concern with the internal world, the world of the mind. Examining questions of human identity, imagination, and intuition, these writers turned inward for a source of truth. The instability of Ame...

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... to the young, Thoreau dropped out of society with his Walden experiment, foreshadowing elements of the civil rights movement with "civil disobedience", and Whitman faced scorn and censorship for his now-revered "Leaves of Grass". These ideas form the basis for the 20th century's civil rights movements and "hippie" movements ... their struggle to fight the system and promote free spirit. In achieving such goals, they felt this prevented them from becoming corporate "zombies". For all the protests and discontent, both betray and inner love and joy, and worship beauty. The more natural som...

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