ENGL 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Enjambment
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Each and all: message trying to be conveyed and how. Structure: the rhyme scheme is inconsistent, enjambement. Ties into holistic nature: if you take out a line it would ruin the poem. The snow storm: humanity v nature. Two parts of the poem: biographical headnotes. Things in his life are very sudden: snow is personi ed as an artist and an architecture. Nature can be comprehended as a human: spontaneity is brought up in the poem and the american scholar. Invocation of the muse: give positive intoxication and inspiration. #1: against the wine and bread becoming the blood of god. Does not need it: can"t give the communion, likening christ to a bacchus myth. Food and wine is already part of man: poison. Connects poem back to his retreat from christianity: poisoned by these beliefs. The lotus helps you forget: the wine revives him, comes from a nocturnal root. Touches heaven: holistic hell to heaven.
