...thought he sounded conceited at first, but now I think the opposite. I like that bit about the stars — 'if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.' I always look at the stars when I am undressing at nights, and wishing I was alone. I like, too, to...

...furnish a significant illustration. This is the first paragraph of the work that first gained him fame: To go into solitude a man needs to retire as much...those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere had been made transparent with this design, to give...

...impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. I. NATURE To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. 1 am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let...

...impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. CHAPTER ONE Mature TO GO INTO SOLITUDE, a man needs to retire as much...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man,...

...light as a metaphor for the transcendent state of consciousness to be achieved in the new democracy. 1f a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . The stars awaken . . . reverence. . . . There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose...

...for idealization. She also denies what Emerson claims to be the necessary isolation of the poet's eye ("if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars"). For Emerson, a landscape may contain other human beings as farmers but scarcely other seers; in any...

..."Nature," in 1836, Emerson revealed his preoccupation with solitude. The first chapter of "Nature" begins: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. ... In the woods, is perpetual youth."153 The hallmark preoccupations of Emersonian Transcendentalism...

...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...those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches. [...] Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are!" (Emerson 1903: 13). Vgl....

...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,...