Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the intricate tie amongst nature, man, and language. His function is to define reason and understanding through nature. Emerson uses the analogy between mans life and the transformation he finds through his soul. He changes the idea of logic and reason, but its meaning remains similar. He draws on images of flowing events and metaphorical illustrations. Nature represents all essences untouched by man. He changes previous ways of thinking, such as Franklin, where God is rational. Emerson uses this analogy to respond to ideas of the Enlightenment and its beliefs. However, nature is separate from spiritual reality. Emerson uses the image of seeing to portray nature as mystical, nonconforming, and based on reason and understanding.
             Emerson uses the image of the eye, and vision, to portray the direct communication with nature. Nature becomes invisible and will "vanish" and is seen no more. The last few lines say, "...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to sight." Only through faith can we trust in nature and its unity of the universe. Emerson embraced nature, and saw beauty resided everywhere. His interpretation of nature is with "new eyes," and becomes a natural world with a higher reality.
             Emerson encourages nonconformity and individualism. It begins; "To go into solitude..." a man needs to retreat from society in order to discover nature. This break from society enables man to become "tranquil somewhat as beautiful as his own nature." The woods become his "platform of experience." As he becomes a part of the forest, solitude enables him to be self-reliant. Man must think for himself, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."
             Reason and understanding are repetitive terms, which interchange to portray different meanings. Previously, many American authors used the analogy of good reason. In the Age o
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