Thursday, June 6, 2024

A second thought about metaphors

 Jorge Luis Borges said he studied Old English because he was drawn to the metaphors. The ocean was “the whale’s road.”

A good metaphor persuades. You believe that you understand something in a new way. 

• Source: Borges’ comment comes from Jacob A. Stein, “The Power of Metaphor”; The American Scholar, June 20, 2016.

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