Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Magnificent Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Magnificent Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston on May 25, 1803 and died on April 27, 1882. According to Encyclopedia.com and other sources such as poets.org, Emerson’s family was “fairly well-known.” It also states that his father passed away when Emerson was just eight years-old, leading his family into poverty. Although he was faced with a financial need, Emerson attended Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of fourteen, enlisted under a scholarship. After graduating, he began to teach and later moved into the ministry, at Boston’s Second Church. He then wedded Ellen Tucker in September of 1829. Their is one major experience that might of had influenced Emerson’s writing, which was …show more content…
For example, the word “celestial” means “relating to heaven, the sky, or outer space,” as stated at Dictionary.com, this referring to God, and nature. The symbolism of the title would be that love is eternal like nature, and the heavens above. He uses many literary devices such as metaphors, imagery, biblical allusions, and antithesis to prove his point throughout the poem. As evidence of the metaphors used in this poem, Emerson writes,” Where unlike things are like.” Thus clearly showing the comparison between two distinct objects. The imagery also used in “Celestial Love” is “Shadows flitting up and down,” giving the image of shadows to the reader. In addition to imagery, Emerson wrote, “And the hand, and body, and blood,” a biblical allusion to the Holy Communion of the Catholic faith. For instance an antithesis would be, “Substances at base divided In their summits are united,” where he uses a contradiction to make sense of his true idea. In this poem the speaker, a wise man, is calmly passionate, and extremely confident about what he is trying to inform us of. The author recognizes himself in the speaker because they share the same ideas and might as well be the same person. In this poem, Emerson talks about us humans being connected to one another, even though we are not
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston on May 25, 1803 and died on April 27, 1882. According to Encyclopedia.com and other sources such as poets.org, Emerson’s family was “fairly well-known.” It also states that his father passed away when Emerson was just eight years-old, leading his family into poverty. Although he was faced with a financial need, Emerson attended Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of fourteen, enlisted under a scholarship. After graduating, he began to teach and later moved into the ministry, at Boston’s Second Church. He then wedded Ellen Tucker in September of 1829. Their is one major experience that might of had influenced Emerson’s writing, which was …show more content…
For example, the word “celestial” means “relating to heaven, the sky, or outer space,” as stated at Dictionary.com, this referring to God, and nature. The symbolism of the title would be that love is eternal like nature, and the heavens above. He uses many literary devices such as metaphors, imagery, biblical allusions, and antithesis to prove his point throughout the poem. As evidence of the metaphors used in this poem, Emerson writes,” Where unlike things are like.” Thus clearly showing the comparison between two distinct objects. The imagery also used in “Celestial Love” is “Shadows flitting up and down,” giving the image of shadows to the reader. In addition to imagery, Emerson wrote, “And the hand, and body, and blood,” a biblical allusion to the Holy Communion of the Catholic faith. For instance an antithesis would be, “Substances at base divided In their summits are united,” where he uses a contradiction to make sense of his true idea. In this poem the speaker, a wise man, is calmly passionate, and extremely confident about what he is trying to inform us of. The author recognizes himself in the speaker because they share the same ideas and might as well be the same person. In this poem, Emerson talks about us humans being connected to one another, even though we are not