... "Masque of the Red Death-, "The Devil and Tom Walker-, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls-, "A Psalm of Life-, "Self-Reliance-, "Civil Disobedience- and Walden demonstrate this influence. Both Romanticism and Transcendentalism involve idealism; worth of the individual and democracy are alike in their correspondence; love of nature is consonantly observable; interest in the past and exotic antagonistically relates to ... the tide rises, the tide falls."" Although the traveler's death can be inferred, the tide continues to rise and fall, representing the cycle of life. Thus Romanticism encompa...

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