The Rhodora (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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Consisting of sixteen lines, “The Rhodora” is one of Emerson's most admired poems. The major theme in this poem, a work written two years before Nature, can be found in many of his later works as well as in the Romantic literature of his time. As indicated by the subtitle, “On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower?” the poem has a philosophical import concerning the existence of the flower.
A spiritual communication between humankind and nature appears at the very beginning (represented by sea winds, a favorite theme in Emerson's works), when the speaker states that...
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