Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional ; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good,... Works - Page 89by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 pages
...to date as any proposed by Derrida or Rorty. "All symbols are fluxional," he writes in "The Poet," "all language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." Emerson thus portrays language not as a fixed mirror of the world's essence but as a tool for getting... | |
| Edward Halsey Foster - 1995 - 232 pages
..."mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one," whereas "all language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." 26 Black Mountain poetry is located in time; in the occasion of its composition; and, above all, in... | |
| Bert O. States - 1997 - 284 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails the symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as barns and houses are, for homestead" (1989, 367). A dyed-in-the-wool symbol-hunter might interpret... | |
| Delphus David Bourland, Paul Dennithorne Johnston - 1997 - 598 pages
...reification: he believed that we must regard language as a map, and not reify it into the territory: "All symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." In this context Emerson also viewed all thought as partial and incomplete, and believed that the thoughtful... | |
| Reto Luzius Fetz, Roland Hagenbüchle, Peter Schulz - 1998 - 1414 pages
...Rede sein, folglich wird die Architekturmetaphorik durch Bilder der Fortbewegung ersetzt: „[...] all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead" (LoA, S. 463). In einer seiner eindrucksvollsten Reflexionen über das Verhältnis von Subjekt und... | |
| Hephzibah Roskelly, Kate Ronald - 1998 - 212 pages
...Emerson static and outdated relative to the tasks he chose for himself. His language is tentative — "All language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead" (1969b, 382) — and his emphasis is on possibility, use, tactic, rather than on a quest for certainty... | |
| Wim Tigges - 1999 - 500 pages
...and the mystic, he argues, is "that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...conveyance, not as farms and houses are for homestead" (ibid.). Emerson proposes an aesthetic that values the symbolism of language but retains a sense of... | |
| Bernard W. Quetchenbach - 2000 - 212 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. (136) Likewise for Bly, writing is an exploratory process. Bly's scientific borrowings, such as the... | |
| Tony Tanner - 2000 - 276 pages
...spends a good deal of its time 'on the road'. But it has more far-reaching implications for Emerson: 'all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead' ('The Poet'). All Emerson's negative terms are to do with 'fixity' and arrest: all evil, he says, has... | |
| Susan Petrilli - 2000 - 272 pages
...this metaphor qua metaphor exhibits the innermost nature of all symbols. As Ralph Waldo Emerson notes, "all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead" (1844 [1982]: 279). Symbols are that by which we are borne along; and to be carried along by symbols... | |
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