A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse
A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse
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This marks the extreme stage of the trope based on likeness. In development, the metaphor precedes the simile. The former can rest on a picturesque confu- sion of names ^ — as in calling the bird's nest his " house " : so Tennyson, speaking of the vanished inmate of a sea-shell, asks : " Did he stand at the dia- mond door of his house ? " Our early poetry is full of this metaphor ; it calls the sky " the people-n?^" the sea " foamy fields^' and so on. All that was required was a common quality,... and the immediate substitution of one object for another. Hence a great confusion, "mixing" of metaphors, as when the "mouth" (sc, door) of the ark is "locked." Much more art, more balance, is needed to pause in the current of poetry and hold two objects apart, painting carefully the details of the comparison, then returning to the main subject and proceeding quietly with the interrupted narration. This demands a higher poetic faculty, a niore analytic, self- contained faculty. Hence the superiority, in point of style, of the Homeric poems over our old English epos.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This marks the extreme stage of the trope based on likeness. In development, the metaphor precedes the simile. The former can rest on a picturesque confu- sion of names ^ — as in calling the bird's nest his " house " : so Tennyson, speaking of the vanished inmate of a sea-shell, asks : " Did he stand at the dia- mond door of his house ? " Our early poetry is full of this metaphor ; it calls the sky " the people-n?^" the sea " foamy fields^' and so on. All that was required was a common quality,... and the immediate substitution of one object for another. Hence a great confusion, "mixing" of metaphors, as when the "mouth" (sc, door) of the ark is "locked." Much more art, more balance, is needed to pause in the current of poetry and hold two objects apart, painting carefully the details of the comparison, then returning to the main subject and proceeding quietly with the interrupted narration. This demands a higher poetic faculty, a niore analytic, self- contained faculty. Hence the superiority, in point of style, of the Homeric poems over our old English epos.
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