How deep and how far will you go? (4)

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4. How deep and how far will you go?

Delight in nature and in language is not permanent.  The reason and faith Emerson experiences in the wood, the transcendent oneness he describes as a scene which yesterday “breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today” (11).

This observation echoes with Nichol’s description of the language’s forcefulness and power to drive us out of the familiar meanings...