If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know. Fancy To love. Fancy To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine. He whom I fancy, but can ne'er express. Fancy To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particular...
The Main Difference Between a Metaphor and an Analogy A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things, like “Time is a thief.” An analogy uses the same idea to build a type of argument, while explaining more in the description. For example, “Time is a thief, beca...
One might propose lyric defined proprioceptively as the posthumous reach of the human hand; this may be why Creeley, like Olson, cites Keats’s ‘The living hand,’ concerning the penetration of the boundary between living and dead, even enacting this uncanny penetration in the poem (2001, ...