1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... beholder, as if it were bound hitherward with a message for me; but it comes no nearer, but circles and soars away, growing dimmer, disappointing me, till it is lost behind a cliff or a cloud. Spring is brown; summer, green; autumn, yellow; winter, white; November, gray. (60) In its disjunction and compression, the pure metonymy of the final sentence above focuses the shifting ... ...
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