Metaphor: Quirks and Perks

Hearts of crockery: easier to break. Or are they?

T. S. Eliot and the Extended Chiasmus

Symmetry and Time in T. S. Eliot’s poem

Today’s Quote is a short poem by T. S. Eliot. It is the closest I have come to finding an embodiment of internal mirroring, or of the so called chiasmus.

Metaphors the Colour of Television

Analysing William Gibson’s opening line of “Neuromancer”

Mephisto and Words: Quirks and Perks

Faust or Faustus of German legend started his literary life in a late sixteenth century…

Asylums as Refuge: Dispersing the Gloom

I associate neurologist and author Oliver Sacks with serene-laughter. Don’t ask me to…

The Sunny Absurd

On Albert Camus’ Stranger and the sun as a symbol of the absurd

Flies in Catch-22

Paradox, epanalepsis, and assonance in Joseph Heller’s work

The Art of Writing: Quirks and Perks

Here’s the author of The Martian Chronicles and the classic Fahrenheit 451, on where and how to…

Epizeuxis for Emphasis

Photo by Katherine McCormack

What is a Figure of Speech?

Discussing the meaning of “figure of speech”