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THE RHETORIC OF THE CITY ROBINSON JEFFERS AND A...

There are many similarities in the development of urbanism and literature in the last two
hundred years  resulting from a correspondence between modes of city-planning and modes of
literary expression. The symbolic city  connected to the transcendental sphere of myth  evolved
into the allegorical city that was transcendentally disconnected. In literature  initially
there was no distinction between the symbol and allegory  but for nineteenth-century writers
both were antithetical. Later  the symbol and allegory were merely ornaments  embodying a
nostalgic drive for the unity of a subject and the products of its perception. Robinson
Jeffers's poetry  like the early twentieth-century city  relies on the symbol while A. R.
Ammons's poetry  like the late twentieth-century city  is allegorical in its essence. These
similarities are not coincidental  but prove that the city and literature belong to the same
socio-cultural sphere.

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