Arjane's REFELECTION on Chambered Nautilus

(Arjane G. Cezar) The speaker or narrator of the poem uses the nautilus as a metaphor for the human soul, stressing that its example provides a "heavenly message" of how people should grow and develop through their lives. At the end of the poem, Holmes emphasizes the idea that humans expand their horizons until they achieve the spiritual freedom of heaven. The nautilus symbolizes the humans as they go through different stages of their lives. leaving the old and searching for new.