“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen, thine, cometh, aweary—the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers—I could now see—faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch,” PoetryLanguageRidiculousUnrequited LoveSimileMargaret AtwoodArchaicThe Blind Assassin Book:The Blind Assassin Source: The Blind Assassin
“It could be said that the lectures changed the way many people thought about myth, fairy story, and poetry, and even about the relationship of imagination to thought and to language. One of the brilliant but cryptic insights he expressed was: ‘To ask what is the origins of stories … is to ask what is the origin of language and of the mind.” PoetryLanguageImaginationMythFairy TalesFairy Story Book:The Return of the Ring Volume I: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012 Source: The Return of the Ring Volume I: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012