What is the tone of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Nature?"

's "" has a
lyrical tone, as much of the writing has the quality of music or
poetry. For example, Emerson writes the following:

The
rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One
might think thewas made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the
perpetual presence of the sublime.

Emerson's writing
elevates nature from the mundane to the sublime, as the belief that nature could bring people to
an appreciation of the sublime was one of the central tenets of Romanticism and off its
offshoot, . Emerson's use of , or starting words that are close together with the same sound,
such as "perpetual presence," adds to the lyrical quality of his essay.

In addition, Emerson's writing is philosophical in tone.
For example, he writes the following:

Whoever considers
the final cause of the world, will discern a multitude of uses that result. They all admit of
being thrown...