Post by account_disabled on Dec 10, 2023 3:50:38 GMT
I often use metaphors when I write and I appreciate them in the novels I read. I have never thought, however, about the reason for their use, the reason for my liking in my readings. I wrote this post because it was requested by Franco Zoccheddu , in the "Tell me what to write in the blog" initiative. The request was specific: to write my opinion on the use of metaphors in fiction, both from a writing and reading point of view, and this allowed me to discover a side that characterizes me when I write and read. Metaphor: a definition Metaphor is one of the rhetorical figures of the language. Etymologically it comes from Greek and means transfer.
It is therefore a term or phrase used according to an analogical relationship with the concept we need to express. We therefore transfer the meaning of our concept to another that has similarities with this one. What is the usefulness of metaphors in fiction? That of enriching one's writing, but also that of creating in the reader a vivid image of a scene, a situation, an Phone Number Data emotion. Reader metaphors I greatly admire writers who use metaphors, first of all Cormac McCarthy, who I believe is truly a genius at creating them. His mastery of the language allows him to find analogies where the reader would never think to find them. Reading his metaphors is a pleasure for the eyes and the mind and for me this is one of the fundamental aspects of reading: I don't read just for the pleasure of knowing, of entering worlds different from the one in which I live and in which I am a stranger.
but I also read for the pure and simple, perhaps even childish, taste of enjoying the beauty of words and their mixing in a harmonious and poetic dance. Because, as I have already had the opportunity to write in a Sunday post, I agree with Baudelaire, who maintains that we must be poets even in prose . And what are metaphors if not fragments of poetry in fiction? Writing and narration through metaphors I use metaphors often, as I said. It comes naturally to me. Even in the incipits I sometimes insert one or two to make the scene more effective, as in this example taken from Grumi : When he awoke under the dull sky his clod floated uncontrollably on the sea of slime, like a touch of human feces drifting in the sewage of a sewer.
It is therefore a term or phrase used according to an analogical relationship with the concept we need to express. We therefore transfer the meaning of our concept to another that has similarities with this one. What is the usefulness of metaphors in fiction? That of enriching one's writing, but also that of creating in the reader a vivid image of a scene, a situation, an Phone Number Data emotion. Reader metaphors I greatly admire writers who use metaphors, first of all Cormac McCarthy, who I believe is truly a genius at creating them. His mastery of the language allows him to find analogies where the reader would never think to find them. Reading his metaphors is a pleasure for the eyes and the mind and for me this is one of the fundamental aspects of reading: I don't read just for the pleasure of knowing, of entering worlds different from the one in which I live and in which I am a stranger.
but I also read for the pure and simple, perhaps even childish, taste of enjoying the beauty of words and their mixing in a harmonious and poetic dance. Because, as I have already had the opportunity to write in a Sunday post, I agree with Baudelaire, who maintains that we must be poets even in prose . And what are metaphors if not fragments of poetry in fiction? Writing and narration through metaphors I use metaphors often, as I said. It comes naturally to me. Even in the incipits I sometimes insert one or two to make the scene more effective, as in this example taken from Grumi : When he awoke under the dull sky his clod floated uncontrollably on the sea of slime, like a touch of human feces drifting in the sewage of a sewer.