METAPHOR : THE LOGIC OF POETRY : A HANDBOOK
by John Briggs
Category: Literary Criticism

Selected poems are explicated by analyzing their uses of metaphor and metaphoric device. The first two chapters of this introductory textbook are devoted to an explanation of what the authors call metaphoric eye. metaphoric models. The two concluding chapters focus on advanced poetry and then address the question of what makes a poem good or bad. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR