Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Eolian Harp" uses the concept of a musical instrument to represent imagery of the creative mind. ... The ideas that manifest from this union of the creative and inanimate are related to the beautiful nature of music. ... Not only is the still air a metaphor for music sleeping on the strings of an instrument waiting to be expressed, Coleridge's choice of words to explain the wind's boldness also emphasizes how wind is involved with the imagery for the creative mind. ... The creative mind of these harps that God plays are resonating with hi...

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Shelley understood that it was impossible to apprehend the real world in its completeness, yet believed we can access to it through a creative faculty called imagination. ... By saying that poetry is the expression of imagination, Shelley acknowledges the fact that poetry is the consequence of an active mental process –an adjustment of the impressions that stimulate our mind–, which implies that imagination is a creative faculty, as well as the fact that "man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven" (Ibid.). ... The poetic &q...

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However, in order to locate "the nonlinguistic material world" in Thoreau's writing, Newman draws upon an ecocritical literacy that remains ironically illiterate in its critical assumptions. ... I begin with Emerson's exploration of the nature of metonymy in his later work to locate Emerson's poetics of nature writing beyond Nature. ... Emerson proposes metonymy as the primary figure in his new scientific poetics, a natural-analogical basis of all writing, all thinking, and life itself. Emerson's "metonymy," I argue, figures a more empirical, if not ecological, way of think...

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