1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... the essay where Emerson suggests poetry's correspondence of mind and matter in referring to it as "the gai science" and asserting, "Rightly, poetry is organic." Emerson invokes Swedenborg and William Wordsworth in this essay, "the agents of a reform in philosophy," but it is for their naturalism rather than symbolism, for "bringing poetry back to nature,--to the marrying of nature and ... not reach the extent of biocentric revisioning of the sort found in Aldo Leopold's "Odyssey" of atoms X and Y in Sand County Almanac (1970), a parable in his vision of biotic community. (39) But this s...
- Word Count: 9971
- Approx Pages: 40
- Grade Level: Undergraduate