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Fate by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
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Fate
 
  Deep in the man sits fast his fate
To mould his fortunes, mean or great:
Unknown to Cromwell as to me
Was Cromwell's measure or degree;
Unknown to him as to his horse,
If he than his groom be better or worse.
He works, plots, fights, in rude affairs,
With squires, lords, kings, his craft compares,
Till late he learned, through doubt and fear,
Broad England harbored not his peer:
Obeying time, the last to own
The Genius from its cloudy throne.
For the prevision is allied
Unto the thing so signified;
Or say, the foresight that awaits
Is the same Genius that creates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Thalia H (5/1/2007 8:16:00 PM)
wtf i go to this school...im confused for some reason idk (i dont know) why....well anyways i gotta comment this cause its from my school..wierd.. well i like this poem i like how it ryhmes and has a meaning to the poem and i like the words indicated
Janet Mulligan (6/6/2006 1:34:00 PM)
When I read this poem, I find myself believing Emerson's notion was to give 'foresight' the power of an universal entity. That, which is to the measured effort opposite that man 'Cromwell' exherts in his world, is the strength and power of the universal entity. By this, says man is subject to the fate of himself. Whomever is genius is not pertinent, for his genius quality he hides from his ego self.

I love this poem.

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