tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post7549392349764902727..comments2024-02-05T15:01:44.563-05:00Comments on Cleveland Poetics: a place for cleveland's writers and readers: Metaphors of the Everydaymichael salingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14717310933948991992noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-16815328747208288542011-04-17T14:51:24.637-04:002011-04-17T14:51:24.637-04:00Before I metaphor
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"David Broo...Before I metaphor<br />I met a three.<br /><br />"David Brooks = a-hole"<br />Sounds like metaphor to me.Johnny Cashlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320411687533431932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-75028082597670291662011-04-17T11:49:48.637-04:002011-04-17T11:49:48.637-04:00Look, David Brooks is an a-hole, not a a-hole. Du...Look, David Brooks is an a-hole, not a a-hole. Dude, get it right, an a-hole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-88276922236189212672011-04-17T11:45:01.632-04:002011-04-17T11:45:01.632-04:00No myth, no metaphor, David Brooks is a a-hole.No myth, no metaphor, David Brooks is a a-hole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-51672884457428005422011-04-13T15:01:55.092-04:002011-04-13T15:01:55.092-04:00In the article, I sometimes get the feeling that B...In the article, I sometimes get the feeling that Brooks is talking about idiomatic use of language. When he speaks of metaphor in relation to Judaism, he reaches what I would consider the main point. Religious language is based on the realization that our thoughts and speech about that which is beyond time and space cannot be adequately expressed in language. This is due to the fact that words can only be drawn from concrete experience. Anything that is "beyond words" (i.e. beyond physics) requires metaphor. Plato's description of the death of Socrates is an illustration. Here is a man (Socrates) whose quest for meaning is bound by logic. When he is asked to speculate about the world of absolutes, he breaks into a story (In Phaedo, it's called "The Myth of the Afterlife".) <br /><br />Myth and metaphor are the nexus of where the self experiences reality (as opposed to the words "about" reality.)<br /><br />In the play "Our Town" Emily asks the Stage Manager if anyone understands how the value of life can only be discovered through the reality of loss (my interpretation) and he answers "Saints and poets, they do some."<br /><br />My personal belief is that the rise of modern sciences have led to a shift in the human psyche. Science demands precise definitions to house empirical data. As a result, people now believe that language is precise. (A fact that seems to make people more literal.) In the realms of religion and imagination metaphor is the reminder that the way that I think and talk about the world is not necessarily the way the world is. My only option is language that points beyond the literal.Robhttp://smithwrite.netnoreply@blogger.com