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How Does Oliver Wendell Holmes Support The Value Of Nature

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In “The Chambered Nautilus” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, he delivers the message the value of nature is being to grow and improve to become refined over time. The poets talks about how the nautilus and people grow and progress becoming bigger and better. He explains a nautilus shell is shaped like a spiral and grows as the animal grows and moves to new chambers of its shell. As we go through the cycles of life we should strive to continually improve ourselves making each new phase of our life better than the last. He uses many literary devices to support the value of nature being to advance in life. This can be evident as “the frail tenant shaped his growing shell”. He uses the personification of the nautilus being a tenant looking for a new
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