My favorite Transcendentalist

Out of the three transcendentalists whose writing we have read, I must say that my favorite of the three was Walt Whitman. Whitman was my favorite because his writing to me was somewhat of a combination of Emerson and Thoreau in that he expressed the strong condensed messages of Emerson as well as the legibility, simplicity and causality of Thoreau. Whitman also felt the need to connect with nature just as Emerson and Thoreau did, however, Whitman had more extreme views than Emerson and Thoreau when it came to the faults of consumerism and the importance of solitude in nature. A good example of this is in "Song of Myself " when he talks about the feeling to take off al of his clothes and jump in the river alone, another part of this piece of writing is when Whitman describes his contempt for consumer society when he is talking about the uselessness of perfume.