Mountain Fable

 

In this fable – written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement - a squirrel and a mountain have an argument!

Preparation

We suggest you do the vocabulary activity below before you read or listen. Then read and/or listen to the poem and do the task to check your comprehension. You can also find out more about the poet in the notes tab.

Exercise

Task 2

Decide if the statements about the poem are true or false.

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ipjmac's picture

Mountains you are too big
are you hiding anything?
You give me the creeps
I feel so tiny
I prefer my flat country
Where I can see
till the infinity

Haxuyen's picture

It is meaningful to learn lots of good things by which we will do wisely and behave well. Never think that others can not do something like things you have done.

Ayerim's picture

Hello!
I loved the Emersons poem, it taught me that not beause I am small bigger people that believe themselves more capabale than I are going to make me follow the path the make for me, because I can crack a nut, henceforth make my own path.
 

irinathan's picture

Montain you are so high
Please tell me how can I
Climb you to be near the sky