...rodents and in a serviceable condition. It looks like a good hunch. — D-4 Nev:s In the woods a can casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is alv:ays a child. In 'the woods is Perpetual youth. V/ithin these plantations of God, a decorum and...

...Being, with unfortunate consequences for any mere earthly attachments: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear .... I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of Universal Being circulate...

...in the cadences of the prose: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a cloudy sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration" (CW I, 10). The differences are also telling. Where Emerson is passive and wholly spiritual, a bodiless...

...Platonist notions, holds true for Cummings' thinking, as well 8 Cf. Nature: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. ... I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate...

...into sharp and memorable focus when he gives us this vignette of himself: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am."28 One can recognize the experience Emerson describes without...

...beholding eyeball, synechdochical of the body, may also be collectively owned. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. 1 am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,...

...drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away." (Henry David Thoreau) "In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as...always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 4. Have students share their responses in their groups. Then have each student...

...mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake h1s...

...moments of life .... These delicious awakenings of the higher powers": Crossing a bare commons, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear .... Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space...

...the boat, leaving the dolphin pods breathing at the surface in the near distance. As Emerson wrote: "I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." We plan to drop in at Blue Hole and work our way toward Blue Corner. Devon says something about the...