------I Thought This Concept Was Pretty Enticing, Given The Stakes. It Really Expressed How Love Grounds

------“I thought this concept was pretty enticing, given the stakes. It really expressed how love grounds people’s existence. Wish it had more time to flesh out the characters.”

Without a basis of the dreadful, there is no perfect rapture. It is in part through the sorrow of life, growing out of dark events, that this basis of awe and solemn darkness slowly accumulates.

The Imagery of Thomas De Quincy's Impassioned Prose - Dwyer (1965)

Metaphor is essentially an expression of an inward situation in outward and concrete terms. Broadly speaking, it can be said that, while metaphor reflects those inward events of which the poet is clearly conscious, and involves a conscious mode of thought and manipulation of words, a symbol reflects the stirring of massive intuitions inaccessibl. to reason. From a study of the imagery, therefore, may follow a discovery of the symbolism.

The Imagery of Thomas De Quincy's Impassioned Prose - Dwyer (1965)

Shakespeare is particularly interested in the processes of growth and decay, as he express it in the fifteenth sonnet; ‘When I consider everything that grows’, in the likeness between men and plants in coming painfully and with many struggles and checks to perfection, to stay there but for a moment and then begin to decay.

His interest in the image is largely psychological, for he sees in this picture of a river overbearing its boundaries a perfect analogy to the result of stress or rush of emotion in men, as when Brabantio, distraught on hearing Desdemona has left him for Othello, cries to the duke: my particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.