Blogs about: Metonymy
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Elements of Dickinson’s Poetics
Image via Wikipedia To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie– True Poems flee– [#1472] Here are some elements of Dickinson’s poetics, her grammar. For Dick… more →
Transcendentalism
Hypallage
wrote 1 day ago: Hypallage (hy-pal’-la-ge): Shifting the application of words. Mixing the order of which words … more →
Idiomaticity
wrote 4 days ago: Today’s Pearls Before Swine: The idiom golden throat ‘a widely admired singing or speaki … more →
Simone de Beauvoir, "The Second Sex"
wrote 1 week ago: 1949 Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex in a little over a year. It forms the fo … more →
dandy
wrote 2 weeks ago: i sat under a woolen blanket, in the thick of rustic mustard weeds. i waited for your response, the … more →
Epexegesis
wrote 2 weeks ago: Epexegesis (ep-ex-e-ge’-sis): When one interprets what one has just said. A kind of redefiniti … more →
Week 4: Response To Lecture
wrote 1 month ago: Today we talked about ‘mapping’ in several categories: Mapping human behavior Mapping be … more →
Riddle#22 Happiness
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wrote 1 month ago: My first Pantoum: A verse form consisting of a series of quatrains in which the second and forth lin … more →
Austen, Emma, Vol.2 Chs.10-18
wrote 1 month ago: Naming and nicety Pun aside, what I want to talk about today are the emotional and social distinctio … more →
Writing Free Verse Poetry: Poetic Devices of Comparison
wrote 1 month ago: Dave Hood Poets use various poetic devices or figures of speech to make comparisons. These figures o … more →
XXXlV. With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
wrote 1 month ago: Sonnets from the Portuguese XXXlV. With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee … more →
APPLIED COMM: Rhetoric Examples
wrote 1 month ago: Here are my examples: … more →
Metonymy and Synecdoche in the Sanctuary
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wrote 2 months ago: “Who hath bound the waters in a garment?” (Proverbs 30:4) “Deep calleth unto deep … more →
Ps 30.9-10
wrote 2 months ago: 9 To you alone[1] O Yahweh I called out[2] and to my Lord[3] sought favor.[4] 1 … more →
Of Conclaves, Enclaves, Autoclaves, and Clavicles (with a bonus note on capitalization!)
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wrote 2 months ago: The media just can’t get enough of the word “conclave” this week. With one pope of … more →
Word of the Week: Metonymy
wrote 2 months ago: Hello Fellow BookNerds! Boy does it feel good to be back in Ottawa, although I just can’t get … more →
john
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wrote 3 months ago: Over on ADS-L, Fred Shapiro (the Yale quotations man) forwarded a query: I have been asked about why … more →
Still
wrote 3 months ago: They are saying: it’s the waiting and not knowing, that’s the worst of it. This is the part where pe … more →
Herbert Read Gallery UCA Canterbury - video views
wrote 4 months ago: http://vimeo.com/57671194 Gallery view http://vimeo.com/57743703 Light:strip (2012) and excerpt of S … more →
a book, and vision, we love
wrote 4 months ago: Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary takes Ishmael’s Cetological Dictionary in Moby … more →
