The Power of Metaphor in Poetry

Joseph Campbell talks about how Homer and the post-homeric literary tradition suddenly had the ability to create metaphor. Two different frames of reference two different magisteria in human experience could be fused so that you could talk about a ship plowing through the sea or not go but plows of the earth. The arts are the daughters of memory that's not easy to parse, says poet John Keats. Poems can collide images and thoughts in ways that ordinary writing and communication don't do they can express things logically and in complex ways," he writes.