Tag: William Blake

  • Adding Color to Life

    Adding Color to Life

    Without metaphor, our language and literature would be pale shadows of themselves. Through the use of metaphor, words and phrases can expand their meanings in memorable ways that illuminate a greater meaning to the reader through a sometimes unconscious understanding of what is truly being said. To the uninitiated, a simple phrase may read like…

  • The Garden Of Love

    The Garden Of Love

    Without metaphor, our language and literature would be pale shadows of themselves. For class, we had to “remediate” a metaphor, which was to manipulate an assigned text into a different media, and then present it in public. We were assigned William Blake’s poem “The Garden of Love” and chose to create an image to represent…