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What is Emerson asserting in this statement? "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

What is the contribution of Ralph Waldo Emerson to American literature?

What is the role of poet according to emerson with reference to essay, ''poet", discuss. what are the functions of a true poet addvocated by emerson?

Within Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay titled, "The Poet," what are the references made to the crisis in the relationship held between the individual and his or her government (and any political or literary solutions)? 

In paragraph 13 of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Education," where do examples of allusion, analogy, rhetorical questions, imperative sentences, and sentence variety/pacing occur, and what are their effects?

Summarize Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Address on the Fugitive Slave Law," delivered in May 1851.

According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, why should people trust themselves?

Have you ever had an experience with nature that transported you as Emerson describe? If not , please discuss the importance of such experiences and describe possible ways to transcend everyday reality in this way.

Emerson and Thoreau. Despite their different backgrounds and experiences, Emerson and Thoreau shared a number of ideas. How can I compare their views on nature, the individual, and conformity?

Why does Emerson criticize schools as bureaucratic institutions?

Why does Emerson say “The use of nature history is to give us aid in supernatural history. The use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation”?

What is an analysis of Emerson's "It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"

What are the two things that are being compared (metaphor) in Emerson's, "to draw a new circle"?

What is an analysis of Emerson's poem "Sursum Corda"?

In Emerson's poem "Love and Thought," what does "Eros and the Muse" mean?

Identify examples of imperative sentences in paragraph 13 of Emerson's "Education."

In his essay "Education," explain the effect of at least five examples of figurative language that Emerson uses to advance his argument. Emerson's essay "Education" was put together from his writings published in The American Scholar and from his commencement addresses.

What is the meaning of the poem "Poet" written by Ralph Emerson ?

What are some examples of analogies that Ralph Waldo Emerson uses in his essay "Education"?

Would Emerson's ideas about education be supported in elementary schools today? Why or why not? He believed children should be given the choice of what to study and what to learn. They should be exposed to many kinds of learning, but then they should choose what suits them best.

"This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of god into the old dead world..." What does the "this" refer to, and what is Emerson trying to say through this metaphor in his essay on education?

What were Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas regarding solitude?

In what sense were Poe and Emerson both Romantics? How did the Romantics differ?

What were the political and social issues during Ralph Waldo Emerson's time?

Was Emerson a rebel or reformer?

Write Emerson's ideas about  "THE POET'S" nature and functions? Emerson-- THE POET

How do you think Emerson would explain the difference between being original and being conventional?

How can I explain this quote by Emerson "life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy". how can i use examples and what could it be a good topic sentence?

What is the meaning of the poem "Nature" (e.g., symbolism, characteristics, deeper meanings)?

What is an explanation of the historical influences on the transcendentalist movement via Emerson's work?

Discuss Emerson's style with reference to some of his essays.

Emerson wrote of the transcendence of the “Oversoul.” What did he mean by the term?

What are 3 specific and distinct aspects or events in Emerson's life that influenced his writings. I have done a lot of research, but much of his life is very generalized in my research. I am trying to choose three distinct things in his life, that directly affected his writing. I need to be able to show examples. I am overwhelmed by the information. I can name multiple things, but not so that I can use textual examples .Please help me narrow it down by choosing three things influenced his work that I can really support with examples from his writings.

Could you explain to me what Ralph Emerson is trying to say in his essay "The Poet"?

Who wrote these quotations: "I am going to move to a new city and start all over as a virgin" and "Truth is greater than the affectation of love"?   I don't think Emerson is the answer.  

Compare and contrast Rimbaud's "The Drunken Boat" with Emerson's "The Snow-Storm".

What does Emerson say is every person's destiny?

In Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Education," identify examples of rhetorical strategies in paragraph 13, and explain their effect.

How is the theology of Emerson different form Calvinism?

Compare "Self-Reliance" or Walden to Woman in the Nineteenth Century as regards the responsibilities of the individual within a conformist society

Referring to Emerson, discuss the basic principles of American Transcendentalism.

In Emerson's From Education metaphor  "The college was to be the nurse and home of genius." There are two metaphors, explain both. I just need a basic explanation, thank you!

I need to find a Transendental primary source, but all the ones I find are very long. I need one with quotes I can connect to modern day. Help please. Anything by Emerson or Thoreau.

What is the comparsion and contrast for authors: Thoreaus and Emerson? I need to know what is the comparsion and contrast of emerson and thoreau ?

Can anyone tell me what the central theme of Ralph Waldo Emerson's speech he wrote regarding "The Fugitive Slave Law"? This article from the book "For The Record A Documentary History of America" written David E. Shi & Holly A. Mayer. I would like to know what this document says about slavery and why. I also want to know what the document says about slavery's place in America.

What are a couple of differences between Calvinism and Emerson's theological beliefs?

What does Emerson mean when he says that no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature?

How did Ralph Waldo Emerson describe politicians and ordinary citizens in relation to the issue of slavery in his speech, "The Fugitive Slave Law?"

What are the metaphors in Emerson's quote, "this thought which is called I is the mould into which the world is poured?"