The poem "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson focuses on a common shrub called rhodora. Through using metaphors, Emerson expresses his love of nature and sees the humble rhodora flower as equally connected to God as humanity. The narrator relates to the flower's embrace of humility as a Christian virtue and finds inspiration from past experiences to construct the poem about the kindred relationship between nature and humanity.
The poem "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson focuses on a common shrub called rhodora. Through using metaphors, Emerson expresses his love of nature and sees the humble rhodora flower as equally connected to God as humanity. The narrator relates to the flower's embrace of humility as a Christian virtue and finds inspiration from past experiences to construct the poem about the kindred relationship between nature and humanity.
The poem "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson focuses on a common shrub called rhodora. Through using metaphors, Emerson expresses his love of nature and sees the humble rhodora flower as equally connected to God as humanity. The narrator relates to the flower's embrace of humility as a Christian virtue and finds inspiration from past experiences to construct the poem about the kindred relationship between nature and humanity.
When I was reading the poem “The Rhodora” by Ralph Waldo
Emerson, I discovered that he focuses on a rhodora which literally
means a common flowering shrub. It was quite hard to understand the poem because he used a lot of metaphor on most of the lines. For me, the writer expresses his love on nature through using a rhodora that presented as a flower as beautiful as the rose, but which remains humble and does not seek fame. I also noticed that the writer was inspired on constructing the poem because of his reminiscence on past experiences. It seems that the poem includes Emerson’s thoughts about the connection of the nature and the humanity. It means that the nature and human can share a kindred relationship with God through nature. The narrator relates to the flower by equally embracing humility as a Christian virtue.