Metaphors we live by?

When we talk ,sometimes we say things directly’ I’m going to store I’ll be back in five minutes’

Other times though we talk in a way that conjures up a small scene it’s raining cats and dogs out we say,

Or I was waiting for the other shoe to drop,?

Metaphors are one-way to talk about one thing but to describe something else , that may seem roundabout but it’s not, seeing and hearing and tasting are how we know anything first.

The philosopher Willian James describe the world of newborn infants as a buzzing and blooming confusion.

abstract ideas are pale things compared to those first bees and blossoms.

metaphor think with an imagination and the scenes?

The hot Chill peppers in them explode in the mouth in the Mind ,they are also precise.We don’t really to stop??to think about the raindrop in total cat or dog but as soon as I do I realize that I am quite certain the dog has to be a small one .

A cocker-spaniel a dachshund and not a golden lab or Newfoundland.

I think a beagle might be about right.

A metaphor isn’t true or untrue in any ordinary sense metaphors are art not science. But they can still feel right or wrong. A metaphor that isn’t good leaves you confused you know what it means to feel like a square wheel ,but not what it’s like to be tired as a whale they almost always say things that aren’t true.

If you say there’s an elephant in the room,

There isn’t an actual one looking for the peanuts dish on the table, Metaphor get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. Plus we are used to sinking in images, every night we dream impossible things,And when we wake up that way of thinking is still in us we take of our dream shoes and button our self into our lives.

Some metaphors include the words like or as sweet as honey ,strong as a tree.

Those are called the similes a simile is a metaphor that admits its making a comparison.

Similes tend to make you think metaphors let you feel things directly. Take Shakespeare’s famous metaphor: all the world is a stage,

The world is like a stage just seems thinner and more boring, Metaphor can also live in verbs Emily Dickinson begins a poem:

I saw no way, the heavens were stitched.

And we know instantly what it would feel like if this sky was a fabric sewn shot, they can live in adjectives too :still waters run deep ,we say of someone quite insightful, and the deep matters as much as the stillness and the water do, One of the clearest places to find good metaphors is in Poems:

?Take this haiku by the eighth century Japanese poem Issa .

A branch floating down river a circuit singing. The first way to meet a metaphor is just to see the world through its eyes an insect sings from a branch passing by in the middle of the River. Even you see that so some part of you recognize in the image A small portrait of what it’s like to live in the word of change and time, our human fate is to vanish as surely as that small cricket will ,and still we do what it does,

We live we sing, sometimes a poem takes a metaphor and extends it, building one idea in many ways , here is the beginning of Langston Hughes‘s famous poem:

Well son I will tell you, Life for me and being no crystal stair it had??tacks in it and splinters,and boards torn up, in places with no carpet on the floor. Langston Hughes is making a metaphor that compares A hard life to a wrecked house you still have to live in.

Those??splinters and tacks??feel real they hurt your own feet and your own heart. But the mother is describing her life here, not her actual house, and??hunger and cold exhausting work and Poverty what’s also inside those splinters.

metaphors and always about our human lives and feelings. The Chicago poet Carson Sandberg wrote :

The fog comes on little cat feet it sits looking over Harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.the comparison is simple, Fog is being described as a cat?

But a good metaphor isn’t a puzzle or a way to convey hidden meanings, it’s a way to let you view and know something differently.

No one who’s heard this poem forgets ,it you see fog there’s a small grey cat nearby,

Metaphors give words a way to go beyond their own meaning, they are handles on the door of what we know, and what we can imagine, each door leads to some new house, and some new world that only that one handle can open.

What’s amazing is this: by making a handle, you can make a world.