The most critical literary device in both Walden and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the concept of “place.” The well-developed places in Walden and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek bridge the divide between humanity, the world, and the divine. Both authors succeed in their quest to find divinity by achieving an intimate relationship with a divine “place,” however, Dillard‘s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek differs from the tranquil, beautiful, divine place of Thoreau’s Waldeni and instead, Dillard realizes chaotic divine place, indifferent to the individual. Transcendentalism did not dismiss a divine presence however rather advocating for individuals to discover “an original relationship to the universe,” and by extension, God.Z Henry David Thoreau sought this relationship through solitude among nature, which his contemporary, Annie Dillard, attempted to emulate in a modern world. The transcendentalist movement developed during the early nineteenth century as a denunciation of the uniform aspects of society attributing such conformity to the institutions of organized religion and industrialization.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |