Nature And Nature In Pound's Idea Of Nature

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson has a lot to teach about how to respect the earth because it is a mighty force but Nature also teaches what it means to be connected with nature and the feelings that are associated with connection. During my close read of Nature I faced challenges, successes, and a greater appreciation for the writing from a world that is drastically different from the one I live in. One of my biggest struggles while annotating the piece was looking at the big picture and what the paragraph as a whole was telling me. While I am annotating I tend to focus more on the smaller pieces such as the meaning of words and decoding what a sentence is saying. It’s hard to pull back from that and connect the bigger pieces to find what the

successful behavior in every aspect of one’s life.” This is the main point that Chin-Ning Chu tries to make through this chapter and it is the underlying point for her entire book. Thick Face Black Heart is a saying that means you are not worried about criticism from others and you are willing to focus on your goal and ignore the costs of achieving your goal. To put it in the authors own words thick face is the shield and black heart is the spear. You can take this philosophy and apply it to many aspects of life. I think that I will use this way of thinking a lot more than I already do after reading this book. If I

“Nature” is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. [1] “Nature” has a total of 41 pages. The essay consists of eight parts: Nature, Commodity, Beauty, Language, Discipline, Idealism, Spirit and Prospects. Each part takes a different perspective on the relationship between humans and nature. In this essay, Emerson emphasizes the foundation of transcendentalism, “a religious and philosophical movement that developed during the late 1820s and 30s in the Eastern region of the United States as protest against the general state of spirituality and, in particular, the state of intellectualism.” [2] “Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature.” [3] “Transcendentalism is closely related to Unitarianism, the dominant religious movement in Boston at the early nineteenth century. Transcendentalism evolved as an organic consequence of the Unitarian emphasis on free conscience and the value of intellectual reason.” [4] Emerson divides nature into four stages: commodity, beauty, language, and discipline. These define the ways by which humans use nature for their basic needs. The historical significance of “Nature” was that transcendentalism club led the celebration of the American experiment as one of the individualism and self-reliance. [5]

(…) the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air—look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire (…). What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like

Throughout many writings, authors use analogies to compare two indicated topics to one another in a more detailed evaluation. Analogies help the reader to grasp the indicated topics the author compares, giving the reader a further knowledgeable understanding of the comparison. Ralph Waldo Emerson uses numerous analogies throughout many of his writings to create a smooth assessment of the subject stipulated. The analogies used throughout Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writing entitled “Nature” gives the reader more knowledge of the topics, a comparable similarity of the given topics and how the given topics interact together to further explicate the comparison.

When I see this quote, it comes into my mind. But, what? It whispers to me that a tree is nothing, but a tree until a living being decides to act upon it. For example, A brick wall is just a wall with bricks until a living being acts upon it, for say if a human being decides to paint or litter over the wall! It says that a man is a man until he or someone / something else has acted upon him making him considerable, evil, handsome, or just hands down ugly. He has been a human just like the rest of the humans. He might just be a little different or largely different, but it also says a living being can turn something ordinary into something outstanding.

Plato once said, “To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.” In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley we see how The Creature’s nature slowly develops through his interactions in the world. Many of these interaction were greatly influenced by Victor, his creator, who left him to fend for himself as a newborn. The Creature was created a pure being, but Victor’s constant rejection and negative reactions pushed The Creature to its final revengeful nature.

There are many authors who write poems, stories, and books about the relationship with nature and mankind, a bond that needs to be molded once again. The relationship with nature that mankind has is sad, for we have a forsaken it. We destroy nature and don't care, in fact, we are trying to leave it, this planet. To proudly survive in this world, the human race needs to reconnect with nature, otherwise it'll strike back on humanity for its destruction of the world. Authors like Ralph W. Emerson and Jack London wrote stories of nature and of their beliefs about it and what mankind should do to reconnect with it. I will give quotes on to those stories, their ideas, and what I think about nature and mankind together.

In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley asserts that nature is a blessing that people should appreciate. Henry Clerval is Shelley’s model for a man who respects nature; he contrasts Victor, who no longer gives reverence to nature.

While he is on this trip he notice's a wasp house and goes on to the details of the house trying to explain what he is seeing like he is doing in paragraphs one and two. "I did find something under the eaves — something

In the New World, the Puritans shunned the wild, frightening, and intimidating land. Wild nature, lacking structure imposed by civilized man, threatened their life and viability of their society. The Puritans feared the inability to control the wilderness. Also, indigenous people inhabited the New England forests and threatened their newly established community. The Puritans viewed the Native Americans as savages often comparing them to the wilderness. Since the native people rejected God and were not willing to be evangelized, the Puritans persecuted them. Some even believed that Satan or an evil spirit possessed the indigenous people. The Puritans regarded the Native Americans as heathen and wild. To fight off the threats of the wilderness, the Puritans fought the vast forests around them, determined to eliminate the wilderness of New World. To acquires food, the settlers eliminated the forestlands transforming the landscape to suit agriculture.

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She creates an image in the reader’s mind of a small, helpless moth struggling to use his petite and powerless legs. She says, “there was something marvelous as well as pathetic about him” (266). The reader can not only feel sorry for the struggle of the moth, but also admire its

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was a groundbreaking novel into the horrors that humans can achieve. It helped defined a genre, and gave a new meaning to the gothic novel line of books. Shelley came up with the idea of Frankenstein during a bet with her fellow poet friends. Whomever could write the best scary story won their competition, and this was how Frankenstein was born. Shelley included many themes in her creation of the story Frankenstein such as Family, Imagination, Ambition, Education, and Nature.

This quote looks into the side of humanity at where all seems good when bad. You’re “Running” and “leaping”, enjoying what seems to be right. Many problems in humanity, within one’s self, are from doing something wrong which may seem right at the time. Another quote from this poem, “One looked up, grinning, And said, “Comrade! Brother!” This quote shows the togetherness of humanity, but with edge. This poem shows both sides of humanity through all its verses. Every line can be interpreted into the good and bad of us