Interpretation of Emerson

A detailed Summary of Interpretation of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem, "Each and All" is a work

that correlates and examines the relationships between

various animate, and inanimate objects that exist on

different levels of life. In order to modify and emphasize

his points and ideas Emerson uses a variety of techniques,

both conventional and unconventional poetic devices. "Each

and All" is a poem that organizes and puts into perspective

all aspects of life, including his own, while creating a

unifying theme between beauty, truth, and spirituality.

Due to the inconsistent patterns that exist throughout

the lines it becomes evident within the structure of this

particular work that Emerson has no distinctive style.

Emerson's use of rhyme within this poem varies from the

rhymed couplet to a split couplet, inversion, slant rhyme,

no rhyme or blank verse, and enjambment. Inversion and

enjambment occur in this in poem in lines 1 and 2 where

Emerson says, "Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked

clown, Of the from the hill top looking down." In lines

1-12 of the poem we witness Emerson's use of the rhymed

be looked at as an ABAB rhyme pattern within a pattern of

shore has no word preceding or proceeding it that rhymes

to acknowledge the idea that is communicated in it. Emerson

13-16 and 38-44 where we witness an unexpected change in the

clarify his definition of beauty in exemplifying that the

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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