Metaphors...

Posted by Gigi on July 19, 2000 at 03:57:09:

In Reply to: I love double meanings as well! posted by Becky on July 19, 2000 at 00:47:35:

...are probably the best way to explain complex ideas. Wouldn't you agree?

Examples from a book I've read:

-Life is a bagel. It's delicious when it is fresh and warm, but often it's just hard.The hole in the middle is a great mystery, and yet it wouldn't be a bagel without it.

-Life is a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

-Life is like a poker game. You deal or are dealt to. It includes skill and luck. You bet, check, bluff, and raise. You learn from those you play with. Sometimes you win with a pair or lose with a full house. But whatever happens, it's best to keep on shuffling.

I have never been good at playing poker, but I keep on shuffling.

: : Exactly, Becky!

: : And it's also a matter of economy. I frequently use metaphors because certain words will speak volumes (with the added bonus of driving the point home with a lucid illustration).

: I'm a poet. One thing I have observed about my poetry is that it is fraught with double meanings. I'll never grow tired of it.
: Also, metaphors, symbols and idioms are very appealing to me as well. They imply that there is more than meets the eye--the relativity of objects to ideas or vice-versa; or objects to objects + ideas to ideas. (*rambling...*)
: :)
: Becky

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