...grasped, to have its life-currents absorbed by what is given. "Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities. But we of the highly educated...

...Sage of Concord tells us that in the Woods — "A man casts oft his years, as the snake his sluff, and at what period soever of life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth." The wise Appalachian avails himself of the benefit of this Rejuvenescence (delectable word), but does...

...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...

...identical with Universal Being, with unfortunate consequences for any mere earthly attachments: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...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...

...presence of Platonist notions, holds true for Cummings' thinking, as well 8 Cf. Nature: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...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...

...private and beholding eyeball, synechdochical of the body, may also be collectively owned. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...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,...

...setting come into sharp and memorable focus when he gives us this vignette of himself: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...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...

...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...

...a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...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...