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Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson Rhetorical Analysis

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Part of Transcendentalism is the belief that people should be “self reliant” and not dependent on other people. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a substanial believer in this transcendentalist idea. He thinks that people should have a balance with nature and other things that are materalistic. This is one of the central ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Nature.” It was written in the 1800’s, and the essays shows the symbolizism of natture and what it menas to him. It was directed towards Americans in the transcendentalist period to keep in touch with nature. In order to display his message, Emerson uses aphorisms and personification to emphasize the balance between thing being natural and thing that are not natural. From the beginning of the
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