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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803

–

April 27, 1882) was an American essayist,

lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the

mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic

of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through

dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United

States.

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his

contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in

his 1836 essay

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He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work

has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him.

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collection. (Poems). This poem consists of 16 lines, short and fine, and the rhythm is

relatively regular. It is considered to be the best in Emerson's short poems. The

rhododendron in the poem symbolizes the natural beauty and spiritual beauty, and

divine power that leads the poet places the rhodaora in the wilderness and forest, so

that the sturdy sea winds, the solitudes, the damp and secluded forest, the slowly

flowing stream and the black pool water all glow because of the rhodora, even the

red-bird comes to express affection for it. These beauty blooms in the eyes as well as

the heart of the poet at the same time, and the poet praises the creation and

endowment of all things with the power of harmony and beauty. This poem is rich in

imagery, neat and harmonious, and has a long-lasting beauty from form to content.

Emerson not only wants the reader to see the external beauty of the azalea in the

poem, but also to show her inner beauty. This

nature, and is also the spiritual meaning and value of nature mentioned by Emerson in

phenomenon... behind the natural world, it is saturated with the existence of a spiritual

spirit in nature”. For a long time, people have paid attention to the practical value

provided by nature, such as the vast virgin forest, because it is a prerequisite and

material resource for human survival, but Emerson wants people to look at nature

with a new perspective and open up practical value. , capture its spirituality. He

believes that the whole nature itself is God's revelation to man; nature has its divinity,

which is the symbol of the intrinsic value, meaning and purpose of nature. He

emphasized: