...night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal jiooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps...suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have nofrecog\ , nised. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied ^»- ' \ thoughts which all have....

...language, of the first great aspiration of the age. 4. Thoreau goes on to say that the hooting of owls "is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight...suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not yet recognized." The figurative language here is suggestive and may be surprising to anyone who supposes...

...contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. Journal, April 25, 1841 I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. Walden, "Sounds" Time All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but...

...We think first of the passage in Walden in which Thoreau contemplates the call of the hooting owl: "It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates. ..." It suggests to him "a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized." Owls, he says,...

...animal, yet with human sobs. ... It reminds me of ghouls and idiots and insane bowlings. ... 1 rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men" (TW 125). 26 Thoreau's displacement of our fears and insanities was surely welcome to Frost, but Frost...

...with the sky it reflects.64 And there is a representational meaning in the hooting of owls: I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have.65 Thoreau actually saw and felt the world this way, and did not merely adopt a stylized rhetorical...

...it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. .Ml day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, 2 where the double spruce stands hung...

...it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung...

...the most part it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, 9. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung...

...and berries ripe for feeding partridges. Swamps are also home to owls, whose ghostly calls suggest "a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have." 51 Thoreau's interest in "undeveloped nature" stemmed from a lifelong fascination with wilderness,...