Poetry was on my mind this week, listening to Amanda Gorman at the inauguration, I was thinking: a good metaphor really can knock you off your feet.
It is one of language’s most powerful devices. Emily Dickinson: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers— / That perches in the soul.” John Keats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” A metaphor is a stand-in, an obje…
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