The Connection Between Things....

I was watchingthe Disney channel when they mentioned something (forgive me for not remembering what was said) about Wallace Stevens. Because of this class I have been so accustomed to hearing those two words that my attention turned. Though they never said anything else I wanted to find out what was said. Through my looking and looking online, I came across a quote that this crazy man said and I found it quite captivating...

"Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor."

I thought that this was one of the most captivating lines that I have ever heard. It is absolutely true in the sense that we hear all of these things and they are so blan. Then when people (writer or poet), spruce up something like a snowman or a pear through metaphor....it takes us to a different world for that moment. We escape reality through metaphor....how beautiful is that line? Another way in which we get lost in different metaphors is trying to find the underlying meaning that a metaphor presents. I know that I always am trying to interpret what different metaphors mean and it leaves me lost, however eventually I will figure it out and return to reality....where the text all makes sense.

There is only one problem with a metaphor....do we see what the author intends?.........

Reality is just simple without the use of different kinds of language. We will always and forever try to figure out what is meant in the text using metaphors, and it sure beats just hearing the obvious.