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Usage examples of symbolism.

Though in his technique he is almost free from symbolist influences, the general spirit of his poetry is much more akin to symbolism than to that of the younger school, for, alone of the younger poets, he is a mystic.

This extraordinary thirteen-page text, which is generally most appreciated as an example of poetic talent, also encompasses astrological, allegorical and alchemical symbolism.

Besides the Cathars, the region was, and always has been, a centre of alchemy, and several villages attest to the alchemical preoccupations of its former residents, notably Alet-les-Bains near Limoux, where the houses are still decorated with esoteric symbolism.

The alchemical symbolism is lavish: base and precious metals, kings and queens.

Some of the secret is given away by the preponderance of sexual symbolism in alchemical literature.

Petrified in art, they accept to the very letter the symbolism of the academical dithyrambic, which places an aureola about the heads of poets, and, persuaded that they are gleaming in their obscurity, wait for others to come and seek them out.

Their symbolism, like that of every other Deity, was coextensive with nature, and with the mind of man.

My fateful meeting with diabetes often reminds me of the ancient Chinese character for crisis, a graceful nest of brush strokes, space, and symbolism that combines the elements of both challenge and opportunity.

Its astronomical and leonine symbolism does not make any sense unless it was built as an equinoctial marker for the Age of Leo.

As we have already seen, both Leonardo and Cocteau employed heterodox symbolism in their supposedly Christian paintings.

It was the ultimate fountainhead of all horror on this earth, and the symbolism shewed only too clearly how integral a part of it Marceline was.

Unlike the religion of books or creeds, these mystic shows and performances were not the reading of a lecture, but the opening of a problem, implying neither exemption from research, nor hostility to philosophy: for, on the contrary, philosophy is the great Mystagogue or Arch-Expounder of symbolism: though the interpretations by the Grecian Philosophy of the old myths and symbols were in many instances as ill-founded, as in others they are correct.

Naturally it followed that Symbolism soon became more complicated, and all the powers of Heaven were reproduced on earth, until a web of fiction and allegory was woven, which the wit of man, with his limited means of explanation, will never unravel.

In general, Sartre was suspicious of psychoanalysis, put off by what he saw as dogmatic symbolism, mechanistic explanation, a preponderant role for the unconscious and sexuality, and an analytic method dividing the personality into hermetic components rather than attempting to comprehend it both in its singularity and, synthetically, as an indivisible totality.

The original feminine meaning is correct, but the symbolism of the pentacle has been distorted over the millennia.