in the lake is not literally a young girl. This is a metaphor for her own youth, which she used to see in her reflection when she was younger. The title is "Mirror", but the poem is about more than an object that we look into when...
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Without imagery, it is not really poetry, it is journaling at best and reportage at worst. In either case, prose, not poetry.
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Love is All-metaphor Love is everyone-metaphor Anthropomorphism-love is... oxymoron or paradox-Listen to the color There's a tiny bit of imagery I think Hope that answered it...I think
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Auden has an ironic line: "All the literati keep an imaginary friend." The visitors may be my notion: a projection of my wish to hear them. But I've often been astonished by what they've said to me, and can't imagine saying what t...
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It’s true for me instinctively, even going far back. My most beloved reading is the British and American romantics, including the Victorian. Their works are highly metaphorical. When I go to university and began being taught these things th...
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What is the more accurate method of defining reality:
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beauty is like a slug, you take for granted that it exists but when you think about it you have really never seen one
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