The poem shows the uniqueness of life and the power that is possess, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees". ... Personally I think this is an entirely unfair statement, that doesn't give Thomas's work any justice at all. ...
Consider the way Worster's version of Thoreau's empirically rooted difference from Emerson's figuratively deracinated use of nature has extended into recent criticism that gives greater attention to Thoreau's unpublished work after Walden (1854). ... On my reading, Emerson has his own more empirical, late natural history projects, work also left largely unfinished and generally neglected by critics because it, too, was found wanting, as Robinson suggests of Thoreau's post-Walden work, by a "New Critical celebration" of "formal and symbolic achievement." (9) I give part...
