... into parts of speech and transcendentalized into a "metaphor of the mind." Or we are once again at Emerson's 1842 lecture "The Poet," the one attended by Walt Whitman in New York City, where Whitman finds Emerson emphasizing the ample world of metaphors awaiting its poet: "There is no word in our language that 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 ... ...

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