Poetry Comparisson

The New England Renaissance or Romantic period of poetry from 1840 to 1855 consists of poets who focused on love and nature. One of these poets was Ralph Waldo Emerson who was a Transcendentalist, and believed that fundamental truths of the universe lie outside the reach of the senses. The Realism period of poetry covered the years from 1840 to 1900, and presented actual descriptions rather than fanciful or imagined. James Lowell, a poet during this period, was an abolitionist and sometimes wrote poems that had to do with person accounts in his life. Although both poets are from different periods of poetry writing, they both have written about the same physical element of nature, snowfall. “The Snowstorm,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson and “The First Snowfall,” by James Russell Lowell portray positive views of snowfall, although Emerson focuses on the architectural beauty and Lowell centers in on the emotional healing it can possess.
Ralph Waldo Emerson expresses the comparison...