9 hours ago
(Yesterday, 05:39 PM)busker Wrote: The metaphor - windmills representing the folly of fighting climate change - is tiresome, and there is little point in criticising a poem where the narrator comes across as a fool.This might actually be a good point - the metaphor is so overused I actually glossed right through it as an accepted plot device.
The interesting metaphor was the inversion of Don Quixote tilting at windmills to windmills tilting at him showing the changing agency in a modern world and of course it would evaporate without windmills as a plot device