Metaphors In English Essay

No one can deny the transfer of energy from the dispute of Plato and Aristotle to this time through the tension of thought over the metaphor--The tension which fuelled a war between poetic and philosophical metaphor. This paper looks at the ways in which a discourse in a novel and philosophical texts could generate possibilities of meaning, through metaphors and quotation marks, especially scare quotes, as metaphors. The Guide by RK Narayan concludes with a certain uncertainty when the swami who was fasting for rain, suddenly told his disciple waiting for rain, “Look Velan it’s raining in the hills” (237). These lines have become one of the most ambiguous lines in the history of Indian writing in English. This paper will try to find out the metaphor of certainty/uncertainty inherent in it. It will be studied with reference to both elements of philosophical/fictional

That is why they are double, mirrored, inverted images of each other, and not singular. That is why they create infinity and thus a lost certainty. For Davidson quotation marks point out (Stratford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). It is the feature which is shared with optical simile: "Metaphor puts before our eyes with vivacity what simile reconstructs indirectly and more cumbersomely" (WM 39). Scare quotes are analogical device par excellence because of their sign value, their doubling and their being the other, subaltern, amongst the alphabetical order. They rise afresh every time but are not new every time as they hold the same sign value. But this new yet old Other should be represented by the other. This is the gramttical justification, which many give, but a biased one ( Stratford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Still this biased approach is fit for the barter of values. It is not cumbersome to call these double signs of quotations as a double similes and further as analogy as”[analogy] is almost a simile, or a double simile” (WM