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The early 19th century ideas of transcendentalism, which were introduced by Ralph Emerson and David Thoreau, where man as an individual becomes spiritually consumed with nature and himself through experience are contrasted by Emily Dickinson, ....

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... works were meant to taunt society by showing how a woman, ironically trapped in her “natural” surroundings of the home, could obtain as much power, if not more than any male writer. This ironic revisions of ideas is directed at all male transcendentalists and figures in society. Both Ralph Emerson and David Thoreau used societies stereotype of the true male environment, “nature”, to draw their power and write from their experiences. Experience was the most important factor to these writers. The ability “to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account in my next excursion” was the basis of all their writings. “To get ...