The Left Hemisphere Is Not a Bulldog

Poetry is often setting up metaphors that have many resonances, half a dozen different resonances. So metaphors are very rich and living way to use language. And the left hemisphere doesn't get it. It does not compute. And it sees a metaphor as simply a lie. But it's not just a lie. The point of saying that Churchill was a bulldog depends on the fact that Churchill was not actually a bulldog. He was a human being. By bringing these two concepts together, the man and the dog, something can be said. I resist the image of the computer as a comparison with the brain, because the brain is only like a computer. In some ways, the