... can not become to us typical of nature by giving it emphasis. The world is an animal; it is a bird; it is a boat; it is a shadow; it is a torrent, a mist, a spider's snare; it is what you will, and the metaphor will hold, and it will give the imagination keen pleasure." (18) In "Poetry and Imagination," the aging Emerson (with editorial help ... the melting sand as "poetic figure," as "a product of imaginative perception, of the analogy-perceiving, metaphor-making, mythopoeic power of the human mind." Rochelle Johnson includes Marx amongst a list of myth and symbol scholars who, she ass...

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