Character (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The poem, Character, though short and simple, really brings about a lot of the characteristics of the Romantic period that the link talked about. Character uses nature to describe something bigger ("The sun set, but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:" by comparing the sun and his hope, and he continues to do this throughout the rest of the poem. 

Again, the Romanticists described something as more of the sublime, somethings so beautiful and big, which is described throughout Character as well: "His action won such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat." Emerson takes the meaning of "all measure of the feat", something big and probably intimidating, but slides it into his poem with significance on how the words were "soft as rain". Emerson's emphasis on how these ordinary things created character in a person were extremely significant of writers of this period. 

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