Everything about The Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson totally explained
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The Poet" is an essay by
U.S. writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson, written between 1841 and 1843 and published in his
Essays, Second Series in 1844. It isn't about "men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in meter, but of the true poet."
The final lines in the essay read as follows:
» "Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there's Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble."
The essay played an instrumental role in the 1855 appearance of the first edition of
Walt Whitman's collection of poems,
Leaves of Grass.
In the essay, Emerson expresses the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices:
» "Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, are yet unsung."
After reading the essay, Whitman consciously set out to answer Emerson's call. When the book was first published, Whitman sent a copy to Emerson, whose letter in response helped launch the book to success. In that letter Emerson called the collection "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed."
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