... natural surroundings. This tradition is absorbed in the literary movement of transcendentalism that is expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. This movement were influenced by Romanticism, specially in the aspects of self-examination, the celebration of individualism, and the extolling of the beauties of nature and humankind. All the characteristics of this movement, ... , being him with Emily Dickinson the ones who opened the doors to the modern poetry. He as many other writers of this epoch made a difference in the romanticism believes. Whitman in his simple words exp...

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