Here is another example of why I love studying Hebrew poetry. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp points out that enjambment (love how that b is jammed in there) expresses meaning in Lamentations through giving “provisional” meaning in the first line of a couplet only to have this “half” meaning counteracted by the second. Here’s an example from Lamentations …
Enjambment and the Provisionality of Suffering (?) Read More »
One of the joys of poetry is that it often forces the reader to come to terms with jarring, discordant meanings. In Meaning, Michael Polanyi cites Max Black on metaphor: “In the end Black seems to think that ‘the secret and mystery of metaphor’ reside in the connection that the reader is forced to make …
A conversation between Jerry Seinfeld and Colin Quinn found here: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee JS: I do that joke, they say life’s too short. I say it’s too long. There’s something to that. . . . Do you think that this is how life ends, that you really just go, “it’s enough. I’ve had …
