...stillness with thy uncanny cry! BURROUGHS. Birds and Poets.10 I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods. THOREAU. Walden.16 The Owl and the Echo A FABLE An owl puffed up with pride and vanity was repeating...

...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which we have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands...

...heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic 10 and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All is day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with...

...have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All is day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge...

...examples. The chapter on "Sounds" is rich with illustrations of alliteration and onomatopoeia — eg, "All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the spruce stands hung with Usnea lichens," "rumbling of wagons," "trump of bull-frogs." The book abounds,...

...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal...

...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them the scarlet letter. chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal...

...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...

...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,...

...there is a representational meaning in the hooting of owls: I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...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...