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=Dixie Boatwright Wikipedia's Experience (Emerson) article for ENGL2131.01=

Analysis of Article
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Reading List
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 * Baym, Nina (2012). The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Eighth Edition) (Vol. B)
 * Calvell, Stanley (1979). Thinking of Emerson
 * Emerson, Ralph (1844)Essays: Second Series Experience
 * White, Ryan Neither Here nor There: On Grief and Absence in Emerson's "Experience"
 * Gordis (2004) Reading "Experience" And The "Last Of The Anti- Slavery Lectures"
 * Cameron, Sharon (1986) Representing Grief: Emerson's "Experience"

Original
Experience is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was published in the collection Essays: Second Series in 1844. The essay is preceded by a poem of the same title.

In one passage, Emerson speaks out against the effort to over-intellectualize life - and particularly against experiments to create utopias, or ideal communities. A wise and happy life, Emerson believes, requires a different attitude. The mention of "Education Farm" is a reference to Brook Farm, a short-lived utopian community founded by former Unitarian minister George Ripley and his wife Sophia Ripley.

Revised
Experience is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was first published in Essays, Second Series (1884), "Experience" emerged in 1834 and 1844 during Emerson's broodings following the death of his young son Waldo in January 1842''. [2]'' A poem by the same title Experience preceded the essay. Experience focuses on the relationship between god, nature, and man. In one passage, Emerson speaks out against the effort to over-intellectualize life - and particularly against experiments to create utopias, or ideal communities. A wise and happy life, Emerson believes, requires a different attitude.

Original Contribution
Experience focuses on the relationship between nature, god, and man. A few themes in Experience include dream, illusion, temperament, mood and individuality. Emerson states "How many individuals can we count in society? how many actions? how many opinions?[2]. In experience individuality is emphasized as something that is not very common, and everyone essentially gets their opinions and actions or such from other people, or from what society expects of them.Emerson states "Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in focus."[2] Therefore dreams cause us to see the world and nature a certain way, but mood and temperament also contributes to that. Temperament and mood for instance can cause a different outlook on nature simply depending on the mood of that time. Focusing on the relationship between god, man, and nature, Emerson emphasizes how man is in such an materialistic illusion and so similar to others in society, and not very individualistic. Therefore, with man being that way it takes away from his relationship with god, and nature.