Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 23:32:03 -0600 From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU> Subject: Re: PLC: Imagery >Could anyone please enlighten me as to the meaning of solar imagery in >literature? the sun, post Socrates, is standard for the "one" truth, the "one" absolute, or as Socrates calls it, simply, the "one." This is why Whitman won't get up to the sun's time, and Lawrence talks about the "dark" sun behnd the sun. Why Whitman says that there are millions of suns left--it specifically denies absolute truth as set down by the Greek idealist. g --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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