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Originally Posted by RCL
Emerson’s Nature (1836) says some interesting things about figurative language, mostly in Chapter IV.
It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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Practically verbatim what Blake said. Or Paracelsus or Boehme, whom they both had read.
And all four of them were pretty damn good at coming up with memorable metaphors.