1. Thoreau and Han Shan
Critical analysis on American literature I analyzed a selected poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled "Bacchus" written in 1847. In this poem I believe that he accurately depicted a metaphorical piece about everyone buying into things that weren't worth buying into, and jading their chance to boost ...
Both Thoreau and Hawthorne illustrate this social deviance and society's intolerance of it, a reoccurring theme in the Puritan world of the 1600s and an inevitable result of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-1800s. ... Based on both the works of Thoreau and Hawthorne, social deviance and the ensuing intolerance which follows have been prevailing themes in American literature since the beginnings of colonialism. ...