Ralph Waldo Emerson is an American writer who entered into the world of literature shortly after giving up his pastoral position in a church. He discovered that his words in essays have more potential, then he could ever have using his voice. Ralph’s style of writing is unique and distinctive from any other religious writings of his time. The writing style of Ralph Waldo Emerson becomes noticeably different by his usage of words, deep meanings behind his writings, and his frequent references to historical and literary figures. Ralph Waldo Emerson Uses words to capture both the upper and lower classes of America. To attract them he seldom uses old english words. The rhythm in his writings sometimes comes to ABAB CDCD in poems(Emerson 13-15). …show more content…
“The danger in Emerson’s method, however, was that readers tended to forget that his idealism was philosophically, not merely poetically”. His essays consist of his viewpoints on nature by using transcendental and spiritual philosophy. “Transcendentalism, is a warm, intuitional, religious, aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical movement, which as a tributary, or romanticism, proclaimed a theoretical and practical way o life and a new humanism based upon ancient classical and oriental supernaturalism”(Ralph Waldo Emerson 171- 78). He elevated God, man and nature as well as became very humanistic in his writing(Thoreau 2).To make a point he uses his words in a essay(Emerson 19). He uses examples of good deeds to show that good deeds are not everything and can save your soul(Self reliance 2). The analogies and metaphors in his writings were used to make points(Thoreau 1). He discusses the difference from the real world and moral world(Self reliance 2). That only the spirit and its ideas are real(Ralph Waldo Emerson 178). He believes every words he writes and only writes what he believes to be true, so it becomes easier to make a point. He writes about vanity and pretense(Emerson 21). He discussed what he believed in and he believe in loft individual and the theory of democracy. “Knowledge could come to man directly, without the need of argument, if only he had the courage to make himself receptive to God’s truth, manifest everywhere”(Ralph Waldo Emerson