Friendship Questions and Answers
Friendship
What does Emerson mean in "Friendship" by "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere"?
In this line, Ralph Waldo Emerson means that with a real friend, a person can share their true ideas and feelings, discuss openly and honestly, and speak words of correction as needed. This is...
Friendship
How does friendship transform the earth according to Emerson's essay "Friendship"?
According to Emerson, friendship transforms the earth by making all the bad things vanish. Winter, night, all tragedy and boredom disappear as soon as we indulge our affections.