Ralph Emerson Beliefs

Ralph Emerson’s life began in 1803 on the 25th of May. He was born into a very religious and conservative town in Boston. He had a very strict upbringing as young adult, also a religious one at that with his father being a minister. Ralph Emerson was born into a family of five children but only Ralph and his brother survived to become adults. His whole childhood was plagued with loss and heartache. After his childhood he went to Harvard University and was “class poet”. He became the figurehead to the ideal of Transcendentalism about 10-20 years after his graduation from College. An interesting fact about Ralph Emerson was that his mind began to slip in his later part of his life. He even forgot his name and forgot totally about his best friend. Speaking of his friends, his friends gave him a nickname because they thought of him as being wise, "The Sage of Concord.” Ralph felt that everything in the Universe was Divine and not just god which was radical at the time. He was also a very stren anti-slave advocate, he’s views on slavery would have been controversial in the South at the time. After all he was writing about this topic pre-civil war. My reaction to the research is that Ralph Emerson was religious but not

Picking up seashells on the beach, a farm with livestock, and about birds singing melodies. There is also a church bell that rings and the narrator of the poem stops and listens to it. Maybe it has an important place in the man’s heart. Towards the end of the poem he says “I yielded myself to the perfect whole.” He may had said that because he felt like everything around him was perfect, that it reflected onto himself. He was at peace at the end of the poem because he was surrounded by his wife and nature. But in the beginning he is troubled, “He sings the song, but it pleases not now”. He was speaking about the Sparrow, but towards the end of the poem the birds begin to him