Quote by Thomas Harrison Download Open image “Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.” — Thomas Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to… — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers,… — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to… — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
