Romantic Writers of the Amer. Renaissance

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Romantic Writers of the Amer
Emerson and Whitman are among the romantic writers of the Amer. In their writings, there was engagement in the portrayal of many issues touching on the society such as cultural independence and respect for nature. Among the issues that they were raising, there was particular emphasis on the aspect of democracy. There is a linkage of their engagement in the writings touching on freedom from the realizations that; at their time, there was much struggle towards the achievement of democracy, unlike now when there have been great milestones achieved in this social aspect.
In their efforts of reflecting democracy, Emerson and Whitman used various devices. There is the usage of metaphors in writing in a bid to pass the point across. For example, Emerson uses the metaphor of a star in his poem, “self-reliance.” In one of his poems, he says that man, referring to human beings, is a star, his own star. Thus, man is capable of shining for himself meaning that; man is capable of achieving democracy and that he is self-reliant when it comes to making choices for making the world a viable place for living. There is also a reflection of democracy through association of the democratic people with greatness.
Whitman, in his poem of ‘song of myself” encourages people to be self-reliant. There is the encouragement of everyone to know what they like as long as is good and then put every effort to go after it. For example, Whitman says that he likes good perfumes; he will smell the fragrance even if they threaten to be overwhelming.

He likes to go out and meet the sun, which symbolizes the good things in the world, hence, encourages everyone to go after their dreams in an attempt to achieve self-reliance.
In the linkage of the symbolic sun to the opportunities in the world, Whitman points out that many suns are remaining in the world. What such a statement means is that; there are myriads of opportunities in the world for those that wake up and chase their dreams. It is like everyone has their own such which they ought to wake up and chase, but there ought to be the democracy and self-reliance.
The enjoyment of democracy is for every person, right from those that are high up there on the social ladder to the ordinary person. When there happens to be democracy in a country, it benefits everyone and therefore; it should be in the efforts of everyone to stain to achieve it. Whitman points out to the realization that the enjoyment of democracy knows not the boundaries of age. The two writers view independence and self-reliance as important aspects of life which everyone should yearn to experience. They consider these two issues as the gate path for the attainment of self-fulfillment and healthy living.
Without democracy and self-reliance, there is bound to be dwarfing of the abilities of people. There will be kind of life that is equalized to people who; when the dawn comes; they are unable to wake up from their bed to go and enjoy the sunshine. On the matter of cultural independence, Emerson recommends the embrace of the efforts of attainment of the independence with the inclination towards the unique features, as such provides the grounds for honesty and perfection of humans.