ENGL 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Henry David Thoreau
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Dr. garrett fall 2016 notes for exam 2 (lecture #5) Walden: the mind must awaken from its sleep. With the expectation of the down: unquestionable ability to elevate one"s life. But you must do so consciously: it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look . We need new eyes to perceive the world, not a new environment: why he left for the forest: To front only the essentials of life and learn what it had to teach. I did not wish to live what was not life. He did not want to practice resignation. He desired to get to the true nature of life and expose it to the world. Ralph waldo emerson (continued from the last exam) The american scholar : a speech delivered to the phi beta kappa society at harvard university, the old fable: An ancient way of looking at life.
