Read the excerpt from a letter martin luther king, jr. wrote while imprisoned in birmingham jail in 1963. one who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. based on his behavior in "civil disobedience," how would thoreau most likely feel about king's statement? he would believe that his reasons and king's reasons for protest were completely unrelated. he would disagree with king's belief that one must accept the penalty for political protest. he would believe that king did not understand the nature of political protest. he would agree with king that one should engage in political protest peacefully.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human

to refer to another writer's ideas in the course of making your own original statement. when you use a summary in the course of your own writing, you must use your be used in book reviews (see chapter 8), in essays of analysis (see, nection between sentences, and you can create new paragraphs to reflect

he uses the metaphor autumn.