Simile & Metaphor

Northrop Frye 2 (2013, 3.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The poet, however, uses these two crude,
     primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and
     metaphor) in the most uninhibited way,
     because his job is not to describe nature,
     but to show you a world completely absorbed
     and possessed by the human mind.

        Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination