Part 1: Analyze the views of nature expressed by Emerson and Thoreau in this week’s readings. Then compare and contrast them to one another. You might also want to apply these themes of nature to overall thought of the Transcendentalists as a genre or discipline. (Readings for Ralph W. Emerson are: Ode to Beauty an Waldeinsamkeit) (Readings for Henry D. Thoreau are: Walden visitors, Walden Former inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, and Civil Disobedience. Part 2: What does Thoreau think of his contemporaries in ″Civil Disobedience″? What in particular bothers him about them? Is there any societal expectation, convention, or behavior that you feel you would like to rebel against? Why?