~Part 10: Wise Words From R.W.E~

If there is one man's essays you should read that would be Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson. I took an A.P English course this year and I wrote an essay explaining his views on what he wrote. I was two points away from getting a one hundred (damn :( ) but I about to share my essay with you young writers to express words of wisdom.

His texts can be found on this link: http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm

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The American Scholar by CherryBlossomSky

The simplicity of etching symbols and knowledge in an hand-held size has altered the very course of history and the human development of intelligence and thought. In his speech, Ralph Waldo Emerson stresses that there are three kinds of influence: nature, book, and action. I stand by Emerson's points of his ideals and the usefulness of books.

Emerson''s argument builds from the wonder of books. The hyphenated, balanced sentences like "It came into him- life; it went out from him- truth." He stresses his cause and effect in a divinely-sense that scholars become the Man Thinking : men of talent of their ideas and eloquent words. He then develops his worries into his argument that the creation of the original literature was from self-reliance and criticizes that scholars can be influenced by the past great minds rather than think for themselves. I stand by his criticism, because there is a lot of intertextuality in many literature. It is not a bad thing but "the guide (becomes) a tyrant." The influence of the great minds creates a rubric or a scale of greatness that scholars have to scramble to become instead of remembering that those great minds were "young men in libraries" too.

Books capture the ages of intelligence and metaphorizes into grander ideas as others stand on the shoulders of the giants. Building ideas after idea of the brilliant, past mind. Defending that books are beneficial to humans, Emerson warns the audience in his speech of self-reliance. His concern is that if all eyes remain on the rubric and judge another of a completely different mind that there would not be another torch-wielding scholar of the current age to spark many more generations of the intellectual's spiritual culturation to become the future's great mind.

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I hope this helps! <3

(End of Part 10)