Transcendentalism in Music
...is suicide". Antoher line filled with Transcendental goodness is line 3. According to the purpose of life theory, the most important thing in life is to seek self-knowledge. In line 3, the writer asks himself if he and his friends are working toward that goal ("Are we getting closer..") or if they're just "..getting more lost." "Let's unwrute these pages and peplace them with our own words". This line seems as if it's spoken by Emerson himself. It commands us to put down and forget the books and to go out and experience life for ourselves. And according to Emerson, one of the leaders in Transcendertalism, that is exactly what a person should do. "We get by just fire here on minimum wage". (ln. 8 and 18) Henery David Thoreau lived by these words for at least two years while living in the woods, and probably many more years than that out of them. "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only". Not only are these superfluities unneeded, but they take time away from a person to go out into nature, and we all know that going into nature to seek self-knowledge is the purpose of like, Transcendentally speaking, of course. "Lets pack out bags and settle down to where palm trees grow". What's wrong with you? can you not see that this line is screaming for you to go into Nature, the place where it is most easy to seek self-knowledge and therefore reach the most important Transcendental goal of all - becoming enlightened by discovering the purpose of life and knowing yourself? Of course you can see that. According to Transcendentalism...