Traveling with Fuller and Thoreau Essay -- Literary Analysis, Summer o

Traveling with Fuller and Thoreau The mid 1800s was a time of continued physical exploration of the landscape painting of America, and an era of luck for an intimate inspection of the land aras sometimes found by the change of locationer with the assistance of Travel Journals and maps. These detailed records, reflected a destination, and also allowed an intellectual travel of the mind. In Margaret Fullers, pass on the Lake, and Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, we contract both their physical, and internal travels, and how each author relates, both physically and mentally, to the inwrought landscape the similarities, the differences, and what elucidated each, to seek their journeys. The observed, physical differences of the subjective landscapes will be compared, followed by a deeper encounter with Thoreau, as to why, and to whom, his more desolate and dark descriptions of the natural landscape, reached a distinctive, psychological appeal, and how these two views relate to contemporary America. Just the title, Summer on the Lake, creates a refreshing image of glistening water and sunshine, contact by evergreens and the voices of children at play, right? As well it should, for that is what the author, Margaret Fuller, had intended to cause as she traveled that summer of 1843, to the Great Lakes. Margaret describes the mevery travel books and journals she canvass to prepare for her trip. Murrays travels I read, and was charmed by their accuracy and shed light on broad tone. (Fuller p.27) Yes, she was charmed by others words anothers description of a place she had yet to travel. She Schoener 2was expecting to regulate beauty an... ...cape of America, it is even more so today. The major difference is that we are able to learn from authors like Thoreau and Fuller, not to just read the words, that to see what they are saying, and to use that knowledge to envision a landscape that is not just in a travel book, or on a sandy beach, but one that is truly ubiquitous.ReferencesEmerson, RW. The Portable Emerson. Viking sport1981Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes. Reprint 2010Thoreau, HD. The Portable Thoreau. Viking-Penguin Edition 1977Thoreau, HD. Cape Cod. capital of Delaware Publications. 2004Encyclopedia Britannica, online Transcendentalism 2010Abrams Class notes 10-4 through 10-25Note RE Fuller. My text was missing the intro-page 7. I used several other editions found online to see information, therefore, my page numbers may not relate correctly to any one edition.