Ralph Waldo Emerson has established himself in history as one of the most influential writers of the 19th century because of his romantic writing style . The poem Amulet continues the trend of Emerson's romantic poems. In the poem Amulet, Emerson takes the reader on a poetic journey that shows the transitions and reality of love. The first stanza illustrates love through visions of happiness and gifts, but then shows how quickly feelings of love can change. As the poem moves to the next stanza, Emerson asks for protection from this changing love. Highlighting the feelings of being in love or not, Emerson shows that love is in fact transitional. Ultimately, the reader understands that the meaning of the poem implies that nothing can truly protect a person from lost love. Emerson uses literary devices such as personification, symbolism, and metonymy to illustrate his message. The form of the poem is a ballad, which he uses strategically because ballads are usually written about love. Emerson begins his message by using the first stanza of The Amulet to provide historical perspective for the reader. "Your photo is smiling like she smiled at the beginning, the ring you gave is still the same." The concept of the image implies that the speaker and another person are separated mentally or physically, because the speaker is looking at a photo of themselves. . The ring is a gift and thus describes a relationship between the speaker and presumably the same person. The story changes course, however, when the speaker receives news that disturbs him about the state of his relationship: “Your letter says so, O changeable child. » The stanza finally ends with the speaker writing "No news since she came" which is in the middle of the paper......forever, and that nothing can protect people from lost love . The poem was written in a quiet mansion, as the speaker seemed humiliated by his experiences with his beloved. For the structure of The Amulet, Emerson uses different instances of the past and present, which allows the reader to understand the past, so that they can understand the relevance of the present. “Your picture smiles as she smiled at first” and “The ring you gave is still the same”, by providing this information to the reader it illustrates that the poem has a historical perspective that is important to analyze. This helps solidify the fact that love was once present between the speaker and his lover. Emerson also uses the form of a free verse poem, which benefits The Amulet because it allows Emerson to use whatever words he wants to display his message without having to follow a direct rhyme scheme..