Transcendentalism In Margaret Fuller's 'The One In All'

Imagine being able to think and experience far beyond the human mind, being able to reach the limits of the brain a normal human cannot. Transcendentalist writers have the mental capability of obtaining knowledge far from their physical reach. They believed the person is more or less good and pure as an individual, but society makes them evil. Transcendentalist writers valued themes about nature, simplicity, self-reliance, the conflict between conformity and individuality and/or the opposite. Margaret Fuller was a passionate advocate of Women’s rights showing independence and original thoughts. She was also very intrigued with the work of nature and what it gives in return. Margaret Fuller has been created into an astounding transcendentalist …show more content…
Some of her thoughts are that marriage is unfair and bias towards women. She wrote, “Thus love must answer to its own unrest:/ The bad commands us to expect the best,/ And hope of its own prospects is the test.” Fuller’s meanings behind this could perhaps be explaining that love is like a test where there can be disputes or abuse, but love and/or the people will have to find a way to fix it. “And dost thou seek to find the one in two?/ Only upon the old can build the new;/ The symbol which you seek is found in you.” She is saying that love isn’t always in the form of person; independence and self love is unneeded of another person. Margaret mentions a few topics saying, “These later men say, ‘Live this little day./ Believe that human nature is the way,/ And know both Son and Father, while you pray.” that you should seize the day and do what feels right,but just know that God is always there watching over. Fuller’s work had several meanings and complex metaphors in her form of explanation describing the one thing people need is already there within …show more content…
She describes his contributions to nature in a kind manner, and that he expresses himself through nature.
No so the voice which hailed me from the depths
Of yon dark-bosomed cloud, now vanishing
Before the sun ye greet. It touch my centre,
The voice of the Eternal, calling me
To feel his other worlds;
She uses the term dark-bosomed cloud to represent the more negative expression of God. Then she utilizes the sun as a positive expression its rays touch her heart. Following she writes “But I had feeling of his essence,” saying that his words are given a personified meaning in which his words are portrayed in actions of environmental creations. Furthermore, she interprets God actions through