Multiple Perspectives In Aldous Huxley's Meditation On The Moon

In, “Meditation on the Moon”, Aldous Huxley emphasizes the importance of viewing the world through multiple perspectives. In the first paragraph, Huxley makes it quite evident he does not like the phrase,”nothing, but,” He believes a better phrase would be,” not only, but also”, and uses it throughout the passage. Huxley states in the second paragraph that the night is, “struggling to wake”, and ,” the blinded garden dreams so vividly of its lost colours.” The use of personification throughout the paragraph led me to believe that all these things under the power of the moonlight are alive. Next, Huxley uses the beliefs of Socrates and D.H. Lawrence to show the limitations of using a, “not only”, worldview. A specific example is,”To say the