The nature in "Thanatopsis by William Bryant and the American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson"

As a matter of fact is, in Thanatopsis by William Bryant it shows us as a Romanticism and Transcendentalism has a relationship or concerns with American style. Romanticism was a reaction against Classicism, Romanticism championed imagination and the emotions and it was an attitude toward nature, humanity and society that espoused freedom and individualism. Consequently, that echoing the ideals of equality set forth in the declaration of independence and offered a parallel to growing sense …

…scholar without the heroic mind." Emerson wants the scholar to learn but question everything. "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power." Emerson also places a value on action. "The final value of action...is, that it is a resource." Through action man has transformed himself into Man Thinking. "The mind now thinks; now acts; and each fit reproduces the other...he has always the resource to live."