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- "The Apology" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a poem in which the speaker expresses regret for the mistakes and shortcomings of his past.
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"The Apology" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a poem in which the speaker expresses regret for the mistakes and shortcomings of his past. He acknowledges that he has not always lived up to his own ideals, and that he has sometimes acted out of fear or weakness rather than courage and conviction.
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Oct 10, 2019 · In the early 1580s, Sir Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry; he was using the word ‘apology’ in its older sense of ‘defence’ or ‘argument for’, but there are a number of classic poems which take apologies, and saying sorry, as their (loose) theme.
May 13, 2011 · An analysis of the The Apology poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
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- 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
- Iambic tetrameter
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Examples of famous Apology poetry from the past and present. Read famous Apology poems considered to be modern and old classics.
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Be inspired by these apology poems to say I am sorry. In life, we sometimes say things without thinking and we end up hurting the people we care the most for.
Jul 22, 2021 · Sir Philip Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry, also known as The Defence of Poesy, was written in 1579-80). It has at least one great claim to fame: it’s the first work of ‘literary criticism’ in English.
