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Emerson: Poems
Emerson: Poems | Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one's own experience. From the embattled farmers who "fired the shot heard round the world" in the stirring "Concord Hymn," to the flower in "The Rhodora," whose existence demonstrates "that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being," Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature. Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emerson's poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.
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dabbe Love me some Transcendental Emerson! 🤩😂🤗 1mo
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Emerson: Poems | Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven
And veils the farm-house at the garden's end."
from "The Snow-Storm" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

What #nature looks like in my world. Supposed to snow all day.
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SRWCF So desolate, yet beautiful. 3y
monalyisha I just love Emerson so much. 3y
erzascarletbookgasm What @SRWCF said ❄️ 3y
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batsy I don't mean to go on about the beauty of snow when you're having too much of it, but! It's such a gorgeous picture. 3y
readordierachel It looks so quiet 3y
Cathythoughts Lovely ✨ 3y
TheSpineView There is a quiet beauty to snow!💙 3y
merelybookish @monalyisha I havent read much of his poetry (although this poem is lovely!) I mostly have read his essays. 3y
merelybookish @SRWCF True. It will look less desolate tomorrow when (hopefully) the sun comes out. 3y
merelybookish @batsy Thanks! There is beauty. But one can have too much of a good thing. 😆😉 3y
merelybookish @erzascarletbookgasm @readordierachel @Cathythoughts @TheSpineView It is fun seeing it from your perspective. We are getting quite weary of it. 3y
BiblioLitten @merelybookish I hear you about the weariness 😅 3y
monalyisha @merelybookish Same, actually! 3y
merelybookish @BiblioLitten We have had so much snow since New Years and more in the forecast. 😳 3y
BiblioLitten @merelybookish I can only see white now but Emerson helps.😊 Stay warm 3y
batsy @merelybookish I'm recalling times in Winnipeg and I definitely hear you 😅🥶 3y
Centique Wow! That is a landscape I have never seen in real life. Beautiful but also worrying, I don‘t know how you get out in so much snow! 🧐 I hope it has eased up and it‘s not making life difficult this week 🤞🤞 3y
merelybookish @Centique Fortunately things are melting! The driveway was getting pretty narrow. I was thinking of you yesterday actually. My own #hiselderliness was saying he'd like to do one more big trip, ideally to New Zealand. And I thought, well maybe I'd get to meet Paula. 😀 Of course, he's 82 so we'll see. 3y
Centique @merelybookish I would love that!! Have only had one international visitor in over 2 years now, so it would be a total joy. 💕 Best wishes to your His Elderliness and fingers crossed! 3y
merelybookish @Centique I'll keep you posted! 😁 3y
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