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A 3 page paper which examines how Ralph Waldo Emerson perceived time. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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transcendental. In his work Compensation he begins the essay with a poem that states, "The wings of Time are black and white,/ Pied with morning and with night./ Mountain tall
and ocean deep/ Trembling balance duly keep./ In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows the feud of Want and Have. (Emerson [1]). From these words one could well argue that
his concept of time was complex, diverse, and intricate. The following paper examines his concept of time as seen in his essays Compensation and Experience. Ralph Waldo Emersons Concept
of Time In his essay Experience Emerson strongly states the following in relationship to time: "Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness, --
these are threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life" (Emerson [2]). He states that he is in no position to give any order to their
definitions and that he surely knows better than to try to really decipher time at all. Throughout the work, however, is something
of the growth that accompanies time for him. He speaks of how he is clearly different than he was 14 years ago and how he is clearly different than he
was even just 7 years ago. In this he clearly accepts the fact that for a human being time does mean something and that with the passing of time comes
wisdom or some sort of growth, good or bad. At the same time he also makes note of how people are
often deceived by time, arguing, "We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep,
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