Ralph Waldo Emerson
Works Cited
Mode of Writing!!
http://www.transcendentalists.com/self_reliance_analysis.htm
Exposition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson#Legacy
Description
http://rmitchell06.tripod.com/id20.html
Emerson's Style
http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam315/waldoemerson.html
Persuasive
http://mrgunnar.net/english.cfm?subpage=348353
Emerson is more conceptual and philosophical
http://www.authorama.com/essays-second-series-10.html
Transcendentalist
syntax:
is quite simple. it was easy to understand.
Diction
Let's look at some Rhetorical Devices
uses common words for many to understand
Metaphor:Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
Parallelism: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."
PERSONIFICATION: "But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."
"the sun shall dry up, and the wind exhale"
Simile: they are like music heard out of a work-house
Allusion - All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret.
Rhetorical question: Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?
Is it so bad then to be misunderstood?
His Major Works!!
The Poet
Circles
Nature
Who is this Emerson?
Self Reliance
American Scholar
Gifts
Experience
The Over-Soul
bff with Napoleon's nephew
founder of Transcendentalist movement