Read the poem.
excerpt from I. The Initial Love in "Initial, Daemonic and
Celestial Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that true transcendence was
rooted in nature and the liberation of the spirit from the laws of
man and the church. In his three-part poem, each segment
represents the forces that either liberate or imprison the human
spint
Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,
In hamlets, palaces and parks,
And told the truant by his marks,-
Golden curls, and quiver and bow
This befell how long agol
Time and tide are strangely changed,
Men and manners much deranged
None will now find Cupid latent
By this foolish antique patent
He came late along the waste,
Shod like a traveller for haste
Which lines most effectively use word choice in describing
Cupid's effect on others to develop a comforting tone?
Select each correct answer.
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"There doth digest, and work, and spin,
And buy, and sell, and lose, and win,"
"Fleeter they than any creature,-
They are his steeds, and not his feature,"
"He palmistry can understand,
Imbibing virtue by his hand
"He rolls them with delighted motion,
Joy-tides swell their mimic ocean."
"He bears no bow, or quiver, or wand,
Nor chaplet on his head or hand."