 I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent...  The Woods and by-ways of New England - Seite 405von Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 442 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Paul C. Adams, Steven D. Hoelscher, Karen E. Till - 2001 - 504 Seiten
...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...stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have."51 During his career he wrote about New England lakes, forests, and mountains not just to convey... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 Seiten
...and great horned owls living near his cabin, accurately and in detail, Thoreau remarks: "I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men" (125). And indeed they do, embodying moods or providing symbols for aspects of human experience that... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2006 - 289 Seiten
...and great horned owls living near his cabin, accurately and in detail, Thoreau remarks: "I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men" (125). And indeed they do, embodying moods or providing symbols for aspects of human experience that... | |
 | Kim Stanley Robinson - 2007 - 562 Seiten
...and so has to stay away." "Ah." It was like taking a pressure off the brain. Thoreau said, "I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have." Oooooooop! And the gibbon chorus at dawn? It represented joy. It was saying /'tti alire. Bert still... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - 2007 - 351 Seiten
...Wordsworth's account and bring out its complexity. "I rejoice that there are owls," he states in Walden. "Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for...undeveloped nature which men have not recognized." The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 544 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 832 Seiten
...burden, in a sense, made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' He rejoices in the hootings of owls : 'It is a' sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight...suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognised. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have.' By art and... | |
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