Emerson
From wise men the world inherits a literature of wisdom, characterized less by its scheduled education than by its strength and shortness of statement. Thought provoking and discerning, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a cynical world an unbiased perspective on human frailty. Emerson first and foremost was a poet. He has not written a line which is not conceived in the interest of mankind. He never writes in the interest of a section, of a party, of a church, or a man, always in the interest of mankind." (Carlyle 19) From Emerson's poetry the reader is able to derive a central theme of idealism and reality. Emerson was "a poet that sings to us with thoughts beyond his song." (Howe) His never ending search for immortality was always resolved by his reencounter with reality. In his poem "Days" he expresses the purely ideal or mystical half of his thoughts. "Days" suggests both points of view and is structurally divided into two parts. The first six lines personify the "Days" as demigods who offer the gifts of life to mortals. Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, muffled and dumb, like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
In another famous Emerson poem, "Faith", he speaks of attributes which require the greatest of discipline, and again self-reliance. And the Day turned and departed silent. At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse? Again in another well-renown poem by Emerson, "Rhodora," the theme of self-reliance is depicted by combining idealistic and realistic virtues. He gives a flower the
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