Being “More” Than the World: Rethinking Rand’s “Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World”

2025 · doi:10.32388/km0vft.2
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This essay argues that Rands's poem anticipates Sartre's concept of transcendence by showing the speaker's consciousness constituting both himself and the world, leading to a sense of being greater than the material world.

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This essay investigates how William Brighty Rands’s poem “Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World” breaks free from conventional classifications as children’s verse or nature poetry, instead prefiguring Sartre’s concept of human transcendence through consciousness. To develop this argument, the essay first explicates Sartre’s dualistic theory of being. Building on this theoretical foundation, it then demonstrates how the speaker’s contemplation of the world and his own existence leads to the realization that both are fundamentally constituted by his consciousness. This realization culminates in the conviction that his being surpasses the material world.
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