1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... relation between matter and mind. The first is the Platonic doctrine of "reminiscence": things in nature resemble somewhat the transcendent forms remembered or recognized only by the soul. Metaphor is the figure of resemblance; such is the organic metaphor named in the line from Nature--a metaphor of the human mind ... as face to face in a glass--and key to the tradition of Romantic organicism. For the other, more modern theory of ... the "profound identity at the base of things," Emerson refers to natural ... ...
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