I'm Relying on You to Think for Yourself

Iron strings, lustrous firmaments, corn growing in my brain: was Emerson paid by the metaphor? With or without figurative language, I'd like you to draw a connection between an idea in Self-Reliance and your own sphere. Think, too, about how RWE's ideas connect to the distinction we drew between personal and shared knowledges. Here, then, is your task: choose one sentence from our Self-Reliance excerpt. Explicate the line you choose, carefully parsing its language and content (are they the same? Way of Knowing alert!) Relate to it a moment of knowledge from your own life (class, conversation, "gleam of light which flashes across [your] mind from within," etc.). Extract a knowledge question, and use it to explicitly connect "your own thought" to Emerson's. In rendering your thoughts back to us, remember to explicitly identify and examine the relevant ways of knowing and areas of knowledge. Please complete your advance "on Chaos and the Dark" by 5pm Sunday.