...because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part."52 Or again in "Language": "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."5' As a recent critic puts it, "Coleridge's recognition of the appropriateness of synecdoche,...

...upstream reservoir and source of all the rivers of language. "The world is emblematic," Emerson says. "Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind." Every mind can claim all of nature for its material.10 Emerson is an idealist, a believer that process,...

...that we use to express particular moral facts that derive from nature. Morally speaking, the "world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass" (24). "This relation between mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of...

...resurrect language, or save language from corruption. The world, for Emerson, is an analogy: "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind" (10). In helping us to return to pictorial and emblematic language, poets help us to "read" the mystery...

...century, quoted as an epigraph in Max Black (ed.), The Importance of Language (1962) 50:9 The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because...the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836, 'Language', in Nature, Ch. 4 SO: 10 I love metaphor the way some people...

...(87, my emphasis). This is to caricature, by taking literally, Emerson's emblematic world, in which "[p]arts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor for the human mind" ("Nature," Nature, Addresses, and Lectures 1905: 38). In Stein's texts, the two...

...transcendentalists, who writes that "man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects" — thus "the world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."60 Nevertheless, Kierkegaard sets himself apart from Emerson by asserting that God is not to...

...that is not dominated by the imaginary quest for ideal objects. imaginary linguistic and visual forms: "Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole...answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass" (53). In opposition to the transparent eyeball that lets nature come to the eye on nature's own terms,...

...is musical in the breeze" (Emerson 1982, 266). And in the essay "Nature," Emerson writes: 'The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...nature is a metaphor of the human mind. . . . The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics" (Emerson 1982, 53). There is a founding of being in...

...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind' (Nature, 24). Emerson does not merely assert that nature provides handy images for pre-existent mental...