However, upon further study, I found the poem is actually about a letter written by a Martian sent to his origins. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

However, upon further study, I found the poem is actually about a letter written by a Martian sent to his origins. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

• Word Count: 9971
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate