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Days;Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.;Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, ;And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and faggots in their hands. ;To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all. ;I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp, Forgot my morning wishes, hastily ;Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent.;I, too late, Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.;Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a very brief poem, only 11 lines long. An analysis can be very intensive. Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, is the first line. Why hypocritic? Days just are, only people can be hypocrites. Is he talking about himself? Projecting his own hypocrisy onto his days? Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, Yes, days dont speak. Nor do dervishes. They whirl and whirl seeking a mystic experience, feeling Allahs presence. Emerson feels his days whirling, and hopes we can feel that too. And marching single in an endless file, needs no analysis. Bring diamonds and fagots in their hands. Emerson is putting the days in charge, perhaps of his own experience, and it is the experience of almost all people. Very few are in charge, choose, their own experiences. Nor do they make their days diamonds or fagots.;Thats all.