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Question: Why does Emerson believe it is ignorant to envy another's
metaphorical plot of land?

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Emerson means that he sees everything; the metaphor suggests the poet is like a single, huge eye. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

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