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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In: contemporary, film, photography · Tagged with: Bennett Miller, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Mark Doty, metaphors, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, postaweek2011
In: contemporary, film, photography · Tagged with: Bennett Miller, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Mark Doty, metaphors, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, postaweek2011