Narrator Narrator Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture in a literature class.
Professor Professor Professor
All right, so let me close today’s class with some thoughts to keep in mind
while you are doing tonight’s assignment. You will be reading one of Ralph
Waldo Emerson’s best-known essays ‘Self-Reliance’ and comparing it with his
poems and other works. I think this essay has the potential to be quite
meaningful for all of you as young people who probably wonder about things
like truth and where your lives are going - all sorts of profound questions.
Knowing something about Emerson’s philosophies will help you when you
Listen to part of a lecture in a literature class.
Professor Professor Professor
All right, so let me close today’s class with some thoughts to keep in mind
while you are doing tonight’s assignment. You will be reading one of Ralph
Waldo Emerson’s best-known essays ‘Self-Reliance’ and comparing it with his
poems and other works. I think this essay has the potential to be quite
meaningful for all of you as young people who probably wonder about things
like truth and where your lives are going - all sorts of profound questions.
Knowing something about Emerson’s philosophies will help you when you