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1. What Does Emmerson Suggest Happens To Men In The Adirondacks?

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In their own ways Ralph Waldo Emmerson and Seneca Ray Stoddard promoted travel to the Adirondacks in the late nineteenth century. Read Emmerson’s Poem “Adirondacs” and then Read Stoddard’s Raquette Lake (10 pages) and flip through the images in Stoddard’s The Adirondacks: Illustrated. Then answer the following questions.

How does Emmerson describe the Adirondack mountains and trees on pages 182-3? What kind of imagery does his use?
Emmerson describes the ADirondack mountains and trees as Titans "without muse or name" These natural elemts provides survival and warmth to travelers far and wide. Majestic, large and purely beautiful is how Emmerson describes the landscape of low moutains and a wide variety of trees. The types of imagery Emmerson uses is visual imagery by offering up a sight of what he explored at the time. …show more content…

What happens to hierarchies?

Men become innocent, honest, and free. Which is their true form and natural selves. Hierarchies are abolished because men must bow to the law and order of an immutable Nature.

On pages 186-7, Emmerson describes his time in the Adirondacks. What does Emmerson and his friends do in the woods?
Emmerson and his friends explore, travel the lakes, hunted, fished, gathered wild plants as well as immersing themselvins with the landscapes of the region.

Some people argued that the best way to preserve wilderness was to keep man out. Is that what Emmerson thought? Why or why not?
Emmerson believed that men brought the best of cities with them and without them these majestic lodgins would be impossible to admire alongside nature.

Stoddard’s writing and photos served as advertisements for the region. How did he attempt to sell the Adirondacks to the public? What did he think about men, like William West Durant, who developed land on Raquette

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