Areluctantpoet
09-30-2008, 04:14 PM
Hi, I joined this site because I have been looking for an answer to a question about a specific poem for quite a while and have not been able to find it.
I am a 48 year old woman, who began writing poetry at the age of 12 after my father gave me the gift of a book (which I still have) of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays and Poetry. I fell in love.
I have a BA in Political Science and a BA in American History. I have Law Degree (JD) from Brooklyn Law School. I haven't spent very much time actually practicing law.
My favorite poem has always been Friendship by Emerson. Just recently I was reciting it to an old friend, yes, I know it by heart, and although I always thought that I knew what each and every word meant, I realized I might not. In this poem Emerson writes "The mill-round of our fate appears, a sun path in thy worth". Does anyone know definitively what Emerson meant by a "mill-round" or if not, by the entrie phrase? I've rec'd so many different answers that now some
35 years after first reading it, I'm confused as to what he might have meant. If anyone can help please reply. Thank you very much and I am very glad to see that poetry is not the dying art all the book stores tell me it is!
Areluctantpoet1972
I am a 48 year old woman, who began writing poetry at the age of 12 after my father gave me the gift of a book (which I still have) of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays and Poetry. I fell in love.
I have a BA in Political Science and a BA in American History. I have Law Degree (JD) from Brooklyn Law School. I haven't spent very much time actually practicing law.
My favorite poem has always been Friendship by Emerson. Just recently I was reciting it to an old friend, yes, I know it by heart, and although I always thought that I knew what each and every word meant, I realized I might not. In this poem Emerson writes "The mill-round of our fate appears, a sun path in thy worth". Does anyone know definitively what Emerson meant by a "mill-round" or if not, by the entrie phrase? I've rec'd so many different answers that now some
35 years after first reading it, I'm confused as to what he might have meant. If anyone can help please reply. Thank you very much and I am very glad to see that poetry is not the dying art all the book stores tell me it is!
Areluctantpoet1972