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" Go love thy infant; love thy woodchopper; be good-natured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home. "
Select Essays and Poems - Página 33
por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 páginas
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Liberty: God's Gift to Humanity

Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 páginas
...the church, and to assume the position of priest at the family altar?" In contrast, Emerson writes, "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim" and "Do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations....
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Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry

Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 páginas
...authentically in loosing the grip of our personal attachments" (36). As Emerson explains in "Self-Reliance," "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me" (EL, 262). But -what a terrible, -wrenching burden such a vision entails. As George Kateb observes:...
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Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature

Wai Chee Dimock, Lawrence Buell - 2007 - 320 páginas
...by inhabiting contradiction and perversity. Both will, in his word, give "edge" to one's feelings: "your goodness must have some edge to it — else...of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines" (RWE, 262). Reason "never reasons" and maturity is never mature: in this essay, maturity suffers a...
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Wittgenstein's private language

Stephen Mulhall - 2006
...Cavell has much to say about Emerson's allusion to a mezuzah, when in 'Self-Reliance' he declares: 'I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.'...
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Beyond the Philosopher's Fear: A Cavellian Reading of Gender, Origin and ...

Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey - 2007 - 210 páginas
...Cavell's vision of language come together in his reading of Emerson's notion of genius and declaration, 'I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim" (IQO, p. 1 14). Cavell writes 'the point I emphasize here is only that the life-giving power...
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Motivational Classics

Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 páginas
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it,--else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine...
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Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero

Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 páginas
...demands others might make. This journal entry would later become a famous moment in "Self-Reliance." The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules & whines. I hate father & mother & wife & brother when my muse calls me & I say to these relatives...
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Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development

Aliki Barnstone - 2006 - 220 páginas
...(or social) realm obstructs the light of truth, which divinely resides within the self; he claims, "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me" (14o). 14 And he asks "Why drag about this corpse of your memory?" (141). Third, in addition to relinquishing...
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Power Prevails: A Self-Transformation Manifesto

Brad Castro - 2007 - 102 páginas
...crowd, the call to duty and accountability. Again, as Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us in SelfReliance, "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me." And your genius w/7/ call you. It's been calling you your whole life, in fact. Haven't you heard it?...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 páginas
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect...
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