Both wrote passionately about every detail of the land, and found inspiration and beauty in every season. ... Emerson's "occult relationship between man and vegetable- presents a strange phenomenon that he somehow ties into a Christian faith. ... Thoreau, likewise, finds nature to clarify man's relationship with himself and his creator. ... In fact, they believed the whole world to be a kind of communal property that all were entitled to. "I am monarch of all I survey, my right there is none to dispute,"" quotes Thoreau in defense of the idea. ...

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George Herbert's poem, "The Flower" (1633), utilizes nature as both an image and metaphor to explain man's relationship to God. ... Here, the flower acknowledges that the Lord does in fact control the seasons, in essence, its life. ... The metaphor of the flower as a comparison to the human relationship with God begins with the changing of the seasons. ... It understands that it is not control of its own life or fate but rather subject to the whims of its all-powerful creator. ... This aged flower is the aged man. ...

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describes a young man trying to kiss a woman, but cannot do it. ... "Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu" describes the freshness of a new season and also the season of love. ... The final line " "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." definitely sounds meaningful. ...

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Washington Irving's story, Rip Van Winkle, proves "Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change"(449). ... "(455) Not only was he no longer adored by all the townspeople, but he was not even known. ... "Having nothing to do at home, and being arrived at that happy age when a man can do nothing with impunity, he took his place once more on the bench, at the inn door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village." (459)Finally, although not changing himself, Winkle has become perfectly content with his life in this new t...

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The theme of this book is life's contrasts and this is made evident with contrasting characters, contrasting seasons, and good vs. evil. First of all, Gene and finny had to deal with the fact that they are very different people. ... Winter's occupation seems to have conquered, overrun and destroyed everything, so that now there is no longer any resistance movement left in nature; all the juices are dead, every sprig of vitality snapped, and now winter itself, an old corrupt, tired conqueror, loosens it's grip on the desolation, recedes a little, grows careless in its watch; ...

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He realized that death is eminent for all and everyone should not take advantage of the life they are given and to enjoy all things as some lives are cut short. The man learned that everyone should enjoy eating well, to cherish what fruits are in season, to admire the grass growing along side of the road, to walk versus taking a taxi, and to examine how things are done such as the simple task of a package being wrapped. ... The man traveled despite the fact that he was told by the old man that no one should travel alone in the cold (50 below zero). ... The man learned all too well that his ...

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The illusion that both are separate is a misconception that Walt Whitman seeks to rectify through the sixth poem by stating that "all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses" (Line 37). ... And as the seasons change, and the trees lose the leaves that signify their vitality, nature enters a new stage in its continuous circle of life. ... The casual dress of the artist contrasts with the formal attire of the elite man, providing the two halves or opposites that are omnipresent throughout life. ... Whitman's mention of the "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, [and] Cuff,"...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Spring season indicates a new beginning B. ... For instance, we are told that Louise was looking out the window at the "tops of the trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life" (Chopin 635). ... Again, Chopin reinforces the idea that women were still living in a man's world, which was often oppressive and limiting. ...

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All things good are of a circle. ... He recalls the many ways in which circles influence the Power of the World, and now the Wasichus (the term for the White man) have put them in the square houses thus taking their power away. ... He discusses the sky, the earth, the stars, the sun and moon, seasons, and life itself. ... He has shared his vision with all men for their greater good. A quote on the back cover states plainly that this book has become "a North American Bible of all tribes." ...

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The other states that man evolved from basic building blocks of life into what we are today. ... Genesis 1-2 explains the creation all of things in the following summary. ... This created a sense of time with signs, seasons, days, and years. ... From this branches of the evolution tree were formed in all different directions. ... Creationism for me is more this idea of where did it all start from. ...

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The move took place at the closing point of my travel soccer season, and the second half of my first semester in seventh grade. ... My dad had built my travel team from the ground up, holding our first try outs when we were 9 years old to structuring one of the elite teams in all of New Jersey by the time we were 12. ... As we turned the corner, I sighed and fell asleep with all the grief any one person could possibly deal with in one day. ... As in the words of Clarence, a guardian angel from the movie It's a Wonderful Life, "No man is a failure who has friends". ...

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• Grade Level: High School