It’s a Metaphor
My students are writing their first papers of the semester now and struggling with Mark Doty’s essay “Souls on Ice,” in which Doty describes metaphors as “containers” for emotion, or tangible vessels for intangible ideas. This definition functions much like metaphors themselves: making the complex simpler, if not simple. Baseball, of course, is a game [...]
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:13 pm by Victoria Olsen · Permalink
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Senses Working Overtime
“To think through things, that is the still life painter’s work– and the poet’s. Both sorts of artists require a tangible vocabulary, a worldly lexicon.” The quote is from Mark Doty’s essay Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, but it could also apply to filmmakers and this polaroid by Andrei Tarkovsky, taken in the early 1980s [...]
Posted on July 4, 2010 at 8:19 pm by Victoria Olsen · Permalink
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In: contemporary, film, photography, polaroid, still life · Tagged with: Andrei Tarkovsky, Mark Doty, Still LIfe with Oysters and Lemon
In: contemporary, film, photography, polaroid, still life · Tagged with: Andrei Tarkovsky, Mark Doty, Still LIfe with Oysters and Lemon