Thought and Iron String
1. According to the first sentence what does every person realize at some moment in his/her education?
Everyone realizes envy is ignorance.
2. What is the opposite of "self-reliance," according to Emerson? The opposite is conformity.
3. What does Emerson see as the most sacred aspect of a person? A persons mind.
4. What does Emerson think of people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood? He thinks being misunderstood is good and those fear are cowards.
5. Emerson makes many of his points through a series of figures of speech - comparisons between two things that are basically unlike. In "Self-Reliance" what does he compare with the ordinary things and events listed below. Be sure to respond in complete sentence format.
Example: He compares cannon balls to words: “Else if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”
A. planting corn He compares planting corn to the people.“no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.” an iron string He compares a iron string to self confidence. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
B.
C. clay He compares clay to work “But redeemers and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort, let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark.”
2. What is the opposite of "self-reliance," according to Emerson? The opposite is conformity.
3. What does Emerson see as the most sacred aspect of a person? A persons mind.
4. What does Emerson think of people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood? He thinks being misunderstood is good and those fear are cowards.
5. Emerson makes many of his points through a series of figures of speech - comparisons between two things that are basically unlike. In "Self-Reliance" what does he compare with the ordinary things and events listed below. Be sure to respond in complete sentence format.
Example: He compares cannon balls to words: “Else if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”
A. planting corn He compares planting corn to the people.“no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.” an iron string He compares a iron string to self confidence. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
B.
C. clay He compares clay to work “But redeemers and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort, let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark.”