In my glossary I briefly touched upon how metaphor works in poetry.
Watch this brilliant TED talk by James Geary to understand it in more depth, as well as listen to the really helpful podcast from Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield at Slate below.
America’s impending FISCAL CLIFF is all over the news. But where did this metaphor come from? And why do we use figures of speech like it?
You could also look at this animation posted by the TED blog. Here is poet Jane Hirsch explaining metaphor.
Hope you see what they mean. *METAPHOR*
