...entpuppt. 14 Nicht von ungefähr gilt der erste Gedanke, den Emerson in Nature ausführt, den Sternen: "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the...worlds will separate between him and what he touches. [...] Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are!" (Emerson 1903: 13). Vgl. dazu besonders Paul...

...and Steele. Emerson played off this style, using it, for example, in the famous opening of "Nature": "To go into solitude a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society." Here he assumes, as natural, a way of talking that generalizes confidently about what "a man" needs...

...your star charts and see what else you can star-hop to. 110 April Ursa Major: A Dipper round tripper To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.... But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds,...

...[Given modern astronomy,] Who can be a Calvinist or who an Atheist[?]—2 From Emerson's "Nature" (1836) But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly...

...lived and worked. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for whom Elizabeth Barnard had named her son, had once written: If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly...

...solitary: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. . . .if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always...

...sometimes sound like parodies of each other. Consider, for example, this line from the beginning of Nature. "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (p. 9). Read without irony, the sentiment could be Lovecraft's, as it was also Frost's — to whom...

...The prophet comes in from the wilderness bearing Truth; but that truth can only be found in nature: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. . . . But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." So the pattern of self-imposed isolation...

...published by Gay Wilson Allen in Waldo Emerson (New York: Viking, 1981), pp. 239-40; see L 7:232-33. 4"Tb go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society" (CW 1:8). '5I take the phrase "standard of excellence" from the passage in Nature which was inspired...

...poem "To Helen". Its writer 2.With whom is Helen associated in line 14? 3.Who is Psyche? Passage 6 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heav enly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made...