"objective correlative" meaning in English

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          "text": "Neil Young invented strung-out country-rock in 1975 with his album Tonight's the Night, its bittersweet desolation finding an objective correlative in the setting of America's south-western desert states.",
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          "ref": "2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 46:",
          "text": "Eleven years later, in 586, after another senseless revolt, Jerusalem was destroyed and Yahweh's temple, his objective correlative on earth, was burned to the ground.",
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