Self-Reliance

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance: Style 1 key example

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Explanation and Analysis:

Emerson writes “Self-Reliance” with an elevated, philosophical, and poetic style. He uses many long sentences with grand appeals to the soul, mankind, and the forces of the universe: 

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed.