I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

- Billy Collins

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Jakobson

Roman Jakobson's essay distinguishing "Metaphor and Metonymy" accessible here -- shall try to summarise or highlight the points relevant to NaM syllabus, when I get the time.

2 comments:

  1. Yay, was looking for this. Dutifully clicked around some, too; GoogleAdsense can go stuff themselves.

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  2. Na, na, ar click koro na. They've taken everything. No use of.

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