Emerson's Essay on Nature

Emerson: Essay on Nature The leader of the transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered today to be a very intellectual man. His views are very simple and complicated at the same time, but that is probably how he would have wanted it. Against racism and good with the pen, Emerson spoke to others with great effectiveness. He was able to lead an entire group of people with his views on life. In his book Nature, …

…even harder. I would say he thinks too much and reminds me of Prufrock. It seems he broken down what Nature means to him so well that he will never look at it the same way again. Throughout his lifetime he recorded his opinions and thoughts down, at the end we were left with a very nice selection or piece of his brain. What we do with it, is what we now have to decide.