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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'Each And All'

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
"Each And All"

Like "The Rhodora" (and a great many other poems of Emerson's such as
"Woodnotes," "Days," and "The Snow-storm"), this poem observes nature closely,
then draws a moral from time to time. Emerson is depicting both the observer,
"from the hill-top looking down," and the observed, "the heifer that lows in
the upland farm," or the "sexton, tolling his bell at noon." All are a part of
the moving universe, and as he points out importantly, "all are needed by each
one;/Nothing is fair or good alone." In line 13 he continues his admiring
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