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Give All to Love By Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Review Aug 13

A forty- nine line poem (which is rated no 19 in PS top 100 love poems listing) that is visually improved in those versions thereof that drop the stanza breaks & leave off the quirky numerical side numbering ( in this version presented here by PS) which merely disrupts both reading & reciting ..as does the traditional first word line capitalisation of what otherwise is a valiant poetic attempt to capture the fundamentals of the key human life aspiration
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August 13, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Interesting critique of this poem.
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