This
paper explains that poetry is too complicated to relay
truth so it focuses on
beauty, and truth must be sought within the beauty of the
poem. The author points out that Ralph Waldo Emerson was able to understand empirical experience through the auspices of transcendental thought with his insight into the divine presence in
nature. The paper relates that Poe's poetic principle states that the truth of the poem is contained within the words and the use of language.