Ralph Waldo Emerson's Poetry

Emerson starts out by talking to the people he is close to explaining why he is leaving. He is saying how he is leaving this world and he is not sad. In the second stanza he is listing all of the stuff he is saying bye to. For instance he is saying goodbye to flattery’s fawning face which he is showing criticism because he will not actually miss it at all. He is saying bye to crowded halls, to court, to street, which he is putting this into a person 's perspective so others will understand it better than just talking about nature when no one will understand it like he did. He goes back to nature and is telling what he likes about this world, and puts it into a perspective that people will understand while still incorporating nature. Emerson

In all of his poems you are always able to find some kind of rhyme in this case you can find it at the end of each line. In the first stanza there is an alternating rhyme but after that in the next stanzas they have continual rhymes. “To upstart Wealth 's averted eye/To supple Office low and high/To crowded halls/to court, and street/To frozen hearts, and hasting feet.” (lines 9-12 Good-by) In these lines it shows continual rhyming, in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poems you normally find the rhymes at the end of each line. When he wrote poems he was very how he worded them and made them correlate with his thought of nature. “And when I am stretched beneath the pines/Where the evening star so holy shines/I laugh at the lore and the pride of man/At the sophist schools, and the learned clan.” (lines 25-28 Good- by) Rhyme is a huge part of poetry it brings the poem together. Emerson used nature in a lot of his rhymes, in this poem almost every last word of the line has something to do with nature. There are many different types of rhymes, but in this case Emerson decided to use continuous and alternating

Emerson had a way of incorporating a lot of different things into his writing. Not only was he a poet but he was also a journalist and a philosopher. In the time period that he wrote in it was a time where you wrote this kind of stuff to get the word about something out. This man went on some great adventures to fall in love with the things that he did. Not only did he do all of these great things but Emerson also wrote a bibliography. “The power which resides in him in new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.” ( paragraph 2 Self reliance) Emerson was an extraordinary man who got the chance to share his story with the world. Nature is a huge part of this world and you can see that in many of Emerson’s poems. Anyone can put their thoughts about something into poems but not everyone can make a point come across like he does with using nature. He had a great was of joining two of his greatest passions into one thing to share with the