1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... the throat. The feathers and wings of birds are still drier and thinner leaves. Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly. The very globe continually transcends and translates itself, and becomes winged in its orbit. So the figural compresses the literal. If Emerson locates in the natural philosophy of Goethe and ... ...
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