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Ralph Waldo EmersonA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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Student Prompt: Write a short (1-3 paragraph) response using one of the below-bulleted outlines. Over the course of your response, cite details from the essay that serve as examples and support for your ideas.
1. If we see Emerson’s “Nature” as a response to one basic question, that question might be “What is the point of nature?”
2. At certain moments in “Nature,” Emerson’s arguments take on overtones of European colonialist ideology or thinking. For example, to illustrate what he considers the beauty of “heroic actions” in Chapter 3 (“Beauty”), Emerson opines, “When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;--before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind, and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture?”
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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