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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May
25, 1803
–
April 27, 1882)
was an American essayist,
lecturer,
philosopher, and poet who led the
transcendentalist movement of the
mid-19th century. He was seen as a
champion of individualism and a prescient critic
of the countervailing pressures of
society, and he disseminated his thoughts through
dozens of published essays and more
than 1,500 public lectures across the United
States.
Emerson gradually
moved away from the religious and social beliefs
of his
contemporaries, formulating and
expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in
his 1836 essay
American
Scholar
America's
He remains
among the linchpins of the American romantic
movement, and his work
has greatly
influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that
followed him.
journal
collection. (Poems). This poem consists
of 16 lines, short and fine, and the rhythm is
relatively regular. It is considered to
be the best in Emerson's short poems. The
rhododendron in the poem symbolizes the
natural beauty and spiritual beauty, and
divine power that leads the poet places
the rhodaora in the wilderness and forest, so
that the sturdy sea winds, the
solitudes, the damp and secluded forest, the
slowly
flowing stream and the black
pool water all glow because of the rhodora, even
the
red-bird comes to express affection
for it. These beauty blooms in the eyes as well as
the heart of the poet at the same time,
and the poet praises the creation and
endowment of all things with the power
of harmony and beauty. This poem is rich in
imagery, neat and harmonious, and has a
long-lasting beauty from form to content.
Emerson not only wants the reader to
see the external beauty of the azalea in the
poem, but also to show her inner
beauty. This
nature, and is also the
spiritual meaning and value of nature mentioned by
Emerson in
phenomenon...
behind the natural world, it is saturated with the
existence of a spiritual
spirit in
nature”. For a long time, people have paid
attention to the practical value
provided by nature, such as the vast
virgin forest, because it is a prerequisite and
material resource for human survival,
but Emerson wants people to look at nature
with a new perspective and open up
practical value. , capture its spirituality. He
believes that the whole nature itself
is God's revelation to man; nature has its
divinity,
which is the symbol of the
intrinsic value, meaning and purpose of nature. He
emphasized:
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