1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... his journals as well as his essays: the poet's valuable and natural use of symbolism: For the value of a trope is that the hearer is one; and indeed Nature itself is a vast trope, and all particular natures are tropes. As the bird alights on the bough,--then plunges into the air again,--so the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form. All thinking is analogizing, and ... 'tis the use of life to learn metonomy [sic ... suggests poetry's correspondence of mind and matter in referring to it as "the gai science" and asserting, "Rightly, poetry is organic." Emerson invokes Swedenb...
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