In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
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Nationality: English |
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

