Ralph Waldo Emerson was an avid writer who had many topics to write about. In one of his most famous works, “Self Reliance”, he uses many different tactics to develop his writing to become effective. Ralph Waldo Emerson achieves getting his message through to the audience by using metaphors and pathos.
In the stroy Emerson uses metaphors an abundance of times to compare things. Ralph uses metaphors such as, “The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. ” the reader may first think, “what does an eye have to do with self reliance?” Though when thought about in the context of the text, it actually has
In the stroy Emerson uses metaphors an abundance of times to compare things. Ralph uses metaphors such as, “The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. ” the reader may first think, “what does an eye have to do with self reliance?” Though when thought about in the context of the text, it actually has