metaphors

Tom Waits’ many, many moons

by Daniel Silliman Music
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Waits has a thing for moons, and has been working on lyrical variations of this one metaphor for gong on 40 years.

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A Thing with Feathers: Concrete and Abstract

by Joe Weil Poetry
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We have seven hues, a silver gyre, seven swords of vision, and a prophet’s flaming tyre. Beats me as to what Campbell means, but almost all lyrical poems contain such moments of high gibberish.

Tagged as: abstract, concrete, Hart Crane, imagery, Joe Weil, language poets, lars olson, lyrical poems, lyricism, metaphors, roy campbell

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Derangement: Breton and Metaphor

by Joe Weil Language
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All metaphors are, eventually, false, inaccurate, distortians of reality. Reality itself is a distortion. Frost–the conservative–said as much.

Tagged as: Andre Breton, dadaism, dadaist, Joe Weil, Knot of Mirrors, metaphors

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Metaphor as Foundation of Consciousness

by Joe Weil Header
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Metaphors are committed to falsehood and inexactness for the sake of a possibility more vital than precision.

Tagged as: bentham, consciousness, disassociation, how to, Joe Weil, metaphors

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How to Teach Writing to Beginners (Towards a Different Kind of Workshop, Part IV)

by Joe Weil Poetry
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Russian novelists exhausted every eye color in the 19th century. Pop song writers are the only people who can make a big deal out of eyes anymore.

Tagged as: blue eyes, cliche, metaphors, workshop

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