During the Romantic era, many Americans responded positively and enthusiastically to writers’ thoughts about the connection between humans and the rest of nature. What is Americans' relationship to nature today? What would Thoreau, Emerson, and the Fireside Poets say about the ways in which Americans tend to interact with our natural surroundings? Identify two examples from modern American life that show how connected (or disconnected) we are to nature in the ways described by the American Romantics. Then select one quote from an American Romantic writer that relates to each of your examples. Explain how the quote relates to the example. Is the example evidence of a strong Romantic connection or a weak Romantic connection to nature?

Answer

Intuition.

Explanation:

Intuition is the ability to acknowledge and understand things in an instant, rather than having the need to reason and think more on it. This ability to have an instinctive feeling and understanding of things without the need to reason it logically enables people to come to decisions sooner.

American romantic writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau emphasized a great deal on the importance of intuition, nature, and imagination in their works. They focused and deal a lot about these elements in their works, presenting a close connection with nature and away from reason. For them, they believed that reason contradicts and prevents a man from using his imagination and thus prevents the use of his full ability.

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)