Recent Posts
The Truth About Lies
Return To Blog Listing
Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'metaphor'
Thinking poetry
Robert Frost is famously quoted as saying that poetry is metaphor, although I've also seen the quote attributed to Wallace Stevens. The view goes back much farther than that though. For Longinus, the 3rd century Roman critic, the essence of ...
Wot's this phor? (part two)
Last time we covered your basic metaphors. If you missed it, here's a link to Part One. Now, if that wasn't enough, beginning with the entries I found in Wikipedia, I trawled through the Web and compiled this list:A dead or frozen metaphor is one in ...
Wot's this phor? (part one)
As a child the words simile and metaphor were explained to me in the simplest of terms: a simile says something is like something else whereas a metaphor says something is something else.Simile: Life is like a box of chocolates (Winston Groom, Forres...
English in its underwear
Scots is English in its underwear. It's difficult to be pretentious in a language like that.I’m sorry to say that the above quote is not one of mine. I’m far from sorry to say that I knew the man who said it. William McIlvanney is a much-respecte...
