1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history." What follows in this opening of Emerson's "Goethe; or, The Writer," the final chapter of Representative Men (1850), is a vivid example of metonymy in Emerson's thinking and writing. "The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in ... refer to the name "metonymy" in his writing, unlike the specific reference to metaphor he makes in the opening of the "Sounds" chapter in Walden, where he suggests that "we are in danger of forgetting the...
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