Tag Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally

By Robin Bates | Published: December 10, 2023

Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.

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Out of Pain We Feed This Feverish Plot

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2023

Oliver captures Christian fish imagery in “The Fish.”

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Longfellow, 19th-Century Rock Star

By Robin Bates | Published: March 1, 2022

More passages from Pearl’s “The Dante Club,” about the 19th Century’s love of poetry.

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Here I Bloom for a Short Hour Unseen

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2021

In “Sic Vita” Thoreau uses the image of plucked flowers to wrestle with the meaning of life and death.

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A Nation’s Strength: Truth and Honor

By Robin Bates | Published: July 3, 2021

Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks to America’s core ideals in “A Nation’s Strength.” Now we just have to honor them.

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Can We Love the Morning Again?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 16, 2021

In this poem Levertov talks about the difficulties of loving the morning again after a night of horrors.

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Use Poetry to Teach American Civics

By Robin Bates | Published: January 12, 2021

Poetry can be used to teach core American values, which we need at the moment more than ever.

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An Inspiring Speech Draws Upon Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: March 10, 2015

Obama drew powerfully from James Baldwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman in his Selma speech.

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The Frolic Architecture of the Snow

By Robin Bates | Published: January 27, 2015

Ralph Waldo Emerson sees a snow-storm as a master architect and “fierce artificer.”

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