10-07-2013, 02:08 AM
(10-07-2013, 02:05 AM)Jeffrey Gibson Wrote:Anything is legitimate it just isn't good poetry. It is actually one of the first things most writers learn about analogy. If you don't want to use it or get better, you are free to continue describing real experiences in terms of the inaccessible forever, but your reader suffers for it(10-07-2013, 01:55 AM)milo Wrote: 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.Perhaps you'll tell that to Rumi, not to mention all the OT prophets and those of their ilk and in their wake who claim otherwise.
In any case, whether experienced or not, it has been imagined and articulated, and given this, it seems perfectly legitimate to me to say that this X (this touch this kiss, etc.) is what (I've been told) the experience of having a god speak to you must be like.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
