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Margaret Fuller's Essay: The One In All

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I’m nominating a prestigious author for the Literary Quill Award. Margaret Fuller’s literary works have a unique trait to them as they speak out about how poorly women are treated in her time. Fuller made an everlasting impression on the equality of the races and the genders for all the societies. The style she wrote in was greatly metaphoric way and used many visual consequences on the imagination. The reasons I state below are the prime examples why I nominate Margaret Fuller for the Literary Quill Award. Margaret Fuller’s poem, The One in All, illustrates a beautiful picture about the women and the equality of her time. The work represents the independence of women throughout the eighteenth-century. In the fifth stanza of the poem she writes, “And dost thou seek to find the one in two? Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you.” This line signifies the independence of women when she says, “...Seek to find the one in two...The symbol which you seek is found in you…” She is saying that she when you seek the person found in behind the mask the society made for yourself, you will find an independant person that is truly you. In her poem, she creates another beautiful message that delivers another outstanding message. Fuller is all about the equality …show more content…

Fuller uses a countless amount of similes and metaphors that create a vivid image in the reader's mind. Not many writers can give you a sense of feeling regarding nature like Margaret Fuller does. She also uses a pattern to write. In the poem, The One in All, in every stanza, the last word on each line rhymes with the last word on the other line. As for an example, in the nineteenth- stanza it says, “But say that Love and Life eternal seem, And if eternal ties be but a dream, What is the meaning of that self-same seem?” In the stanza, the ending words are are rhyming with the next on each

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