ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Detailed explanation-3: -Emerson says “Nature always wears the color of the spirit, ” it means nature has a way to reflect our mood, in the winter you may get sadder and in the spring you feel renewed and refreshed. It reflects his Romantic beliefs because he saw that nature reflects his spiritual side.

Detailed explanation-4: -For Emerson, nature is not God but the body of God’s soul-"nature, ” he writes, is “mind precipitated.” Emerson feels that to fully realize one’s role in this respect is to be in paradise. He ends “Nature” with these words: “Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form.

Detailed explanation-5: -Emerson asserts throughout Nature the primacy of spirit over matter. Nature’s purpose is as a representation of the divine to promote human insight into the laws of the universe, and thus to bring man closer to God.