This picture of a girl sitting upon a section of hovering grass depicts several elements that are important regarding the transcendentalism movement. The first detail of the sketch that stands out is that the girl has tree branches and leaves instead of hair. Looking closely, it becomes evident that she also has roots for hands and no clothes on but only leaves covering a small portion of her upper body. She is sitting cross legged and has her eyes closed as though she is meditating. The sketch is extremely moving when you look and see that she is in fact her own planet in the solar system and is next to Saturn and some other planets can be seen in the distance. The idea that she is her own planet very much follows the transcendentalism movement and all that it stands for. In transcendentalism, it is thought that you should have self striving moments and your religious and philosophical ideas should come from spiritual and mental feelings. This picture very much shows these ideas in a spiritual way. She is a tree which means she has her own roots and can hold herself standing though anything. Also, the fact that she can provide her own orbit in space is powerful and fulfilling. In all of the poems that I researched, there was a common thread of nature and natural elements of the world. For example, in "Hope is a Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickenson, a person was portrayed as a bird. This is similar to the sketch that is shown above. Nature is important to personal development and spiritual and mental feelings because it surrounds you all the time and is what you have to live in and interact with. The drawing perfectly shows this because the girl is no longer just a human but a live tree in her environment trying to stay in orbit and find her way through the universe.
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