Mount Monadnock that could be had from Concord. It was to the White Mountains that he went when the most difficult decision of his life was to be made. See Cabot's Memoir of Emerson, page 155. 25. A quaint reference to the parlors of earlier New England, sacred to weddings, funerals, and the minister's calls. 31-32. A marvelous phrase to come from one who "could not surely recognize the commonest airs." But Emerson had what he called "musical eyes." He believed that the same moods that melodies waken in the lovers of audible music were aroused in him by the beauty that he saw everywhere in nature. As he put it, "That which others hear, I see. 40. Intervals: spaces. Cf. Compensation, 13, 14. 41. Sprite: spirit, i.e., the wish for perfection. 48. Spell: as used by Milton, to learn the meaning of anything by study. 78. Roses and a shroud: gifts of life and of death. Cf. quotation from Caliph Ali in Self-Reliance, 49. 84. The genius, with Emerson, is he who can interpret truth. 89-96. The Spirit of final good, whose viceroy is Love without weakness, appreciates and saves all that is good. 92. Emerson's favorite idea of laying aside the past and making a fresh beginning. See second note to Compensation, 48. 105. Emerson says that a walk in the woods is "one of the secrets for dodging old age.' Why is Emerson grateful to the light, sea, uplands, etc.? What does he learn from women? (Cf. Self-Reliance, 20.) What does he learn from boys? (Cf. Self-Reliance, 5.) In line 13, what is the antecedent of "it"? What is the prose order of lines 14, 15? What does Emerson wish to keep pace with the new inventions? (Line 20; cf. Hymn, line 4.) Explain "the shot heard round the world." Was its meaning any more "clear" than the shots of the Civil War? What is the original meaning of angel? Why should music "disdain" mortals? Do we generally use the word inevitable of pleasant or of unpleasant things? Why does Emerson speak of men as being in a cell? 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