Christopher Pearse Cranch amusingly illustrated this literary image as a creature with long legs and a top hat strolling the countryside. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this metaphor from an 1836 essay for pure, spiritual perception of the natural world. An author claims to be this image before stating “I am nothing; I see all.”
ANSWER: the “transparent eye-ball” [prompt on partial answers]
[10e] Emerson’s call for “solitude” in his essay “Nature” was a primary inspiration for this book, whose author “wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.”
ANSWER: Walden (by Henry David Thoreau)
[10h] After suggesting “an occult relation between man and the vegetable,” Emerson claims that the world seems alternately happy and melancholy to us because Nature always does this. An exact six-word answer is required.
ANSWER: “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
<Taylor Harvey, American Literature>