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"When the poet has converted his pattern of experience into a symbolic equivalent, the symbol becomes a guiding principle in itself... As the symbol is ramified, symbols within symbols will arise, many of these secondary symbols with no direct bearing upon the pattern of experience behind the key symbol. These second or ramifying symbols can be said to bear upon the underlying pattern of experience only insofar as they contribute to the workings of the key symbol. "Again: Symbols will be subtilized in ways not contributory to the pattern....The symbol, in other words, brings up problems extrinsic to the pattern of experience behind it." -K. Burke, On Symbols and Society, "The Symbol as Generating Principle"