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Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Days"
Updated on November 5, 2019
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Poetry became my passion, after I fell in love with Walter de la Mare's "Silver" in Mrs. Edna Pickett's sophomore English class, circa 1962.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Introduction and Text of "Days"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Days" offers eleven lines, an American Innovative Near-Sonnet, a term I coined. Near-Sonnets offer even more intensity than the traditional sonnet, while delivering the beauty of the traditional form.
This poem has gathered quite a few pages of ink from scholars and critics arguing about the meaning of the term "hypocritic" from the first line, "Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days." Some have argued that the term should be thought of as "deceivers" while other insist that hypocritic merely means "actors." The controlling literary device is personification and thus both "actors" and "deceivers" offer a meaningful choice to those who wish to opine.
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