Entry 33: Imagery in "Nature"

Discuss how Emerson uses imagery in Nature to explore his ideas about society and nature. Support your ideas with details from the selection. Then explain whether those uses of imagery are effective to you. Do they help you understand his point? Why or why not? Do you agree with his ideas about nature and society? Explain.

• The first example of imagery that can be used to explore ideas about society and nature is the phrase "rays that come from heavenly world". This sentence is giving us an image of the sky shining brightly with the rays of the sun, as if an angel was descending from heaven. Yes, very exaggerating, but this is the image in my head. The idea this quote is trying to explore is that nature is holy and sacred.
• The second example has the idea that nature is never mean to people (though in cases of natural disasters I will have to disagree with that). It uses personification by saying that "nature never wears a mean appearance". As my previous parentheses stated, it is mean in cases of natural disaster, so I would infer from the quote that even though the appearance is not mean at all, the inside might be a little mean, especially is people is destroying and disrespecting nature. 
• The third image is the image of a child running around in nature. It associates with the Romantic view that children, who are young and instinctive, are better at communicating with nature since the "Romantic heroes" are usually the ones who have easier times to communicate with nature and discover the "truths".
• I believe that Emerson's use of imagery is indeed effective in portraying feeling. However, it makes it harder to understand because of the use of so much ideology.