patteren:
050907;129
series: meta;33
patteren:
050907;129 |
| overtones of words : 'like words, ... images in a poem tend to fall into overtone themes united by either their denotations or connotations.' — John Ciardi, source : overtone map : options pricing model : reduction of all moments to the present : simultaneously : the layers of process and contemplation beneath the surface layer : Ciardi also discusses the mechanics of the metaphor: 'All metaphor is basically a way of speaking of the unkown in terms of the known. The metaphoric formula may thus be stated: X (unkown) = Y (known) ... [The poet's] contract is simple: if the reader will bring a fluent and supple mind to play upon the Y of the metaphor, the poet will engage to give him an experience of the X. But he will also undertake to give him an experience of the pleasurable interplay of X upon Y' — source : its this last undertaking of the poet that is the meta layer : the process become the goal : the seeking become the sought |
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