10-07-2013, 01:55 AM
(10-07-2013, 01:47 AM)Jeffrey Gibson Wrote:Ha! Speak for yourself!(10-07-2013, 01:43 AM)milo Wrote: Isn't that sort of what I did?You did the opposite, you took something we.can all relate to (a kiss) and attempted to describe it in terms none of us have experienced (god's voice)
Jeffrey
Maybe I've been reading too much Homer lately, but I have some idea from that what a god's voice is like and how much like a kiss it is to those who hear it.
Jeffrey
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You have an idea because good poets described it to you using things you have experienced but you have never experienced it. You have experienced a kiss.
Anyway, I don't want to get too caught up in this but it is a good rule of thumb to keep in mind, always have the item you are comparing to (the object of) grounded in shared experience. You never.want to describe things in terms of something no one has experienced.

