Prose Passage by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Prose Passage, Ralph Waldo Emersons attitude towards temper is in truth obvious. He illustrates to the reader that he not only get laids nature, but he is charmed and connected to it. In this passage, he also explores the differences between how adults train nature and how children cypher nature. Finally, he reiterates his delight and connection to nature in saying, Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not engage in nature, but in man, or in a concordance of both. Ralph Waldo Emerson was not only an enthusiastic writer of nature, but an enjoyer of its magnificent features as well. Emerson explains that there is such vastness and difference in nature that individual who visits it cant possible ever get tired of it. He writes, Within the plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial feast is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a meter years. Its beauty is so wonderful that being bored is inconceivable to him.To exemplify that nature evokes happiness crimson if a person were to be downstairs the worst imaginable circumstances, he states, In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Of course, his diversion is expressed when he writes, Crossing a b ar common park or grassy square, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a overcast sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I save enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. The salubrious rolery that he portrays with the puddles and clouded sky brings the reader closer to the image of nature that Emerson saw.Emerson elucidates to the fact that adults and children have very different views of the sunbathe even though it is the same for both. He writes, Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the kindling of the child. Em erson gives the reader the apprehension that their connection with nature is lost on their road to adulthood. However, children admire and enjoy the sun, seeing it in a different light than that with which adults see it.This is exhibit when he says, The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. On the whole, Emersons love of nature is overwhelmingly exposed in this passage. In the end, he underscores the unbroken connection between humankind and nature by writing, The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other who has retained the animate of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse communication with heaven and earth becomes crack of his daily food.