The Motive for Metaphor: Brief Essays on Poetry and Psychoanalysis

by Henry M. Seiden

This book is a small anthology: each chapter a kind of meditation-on poetry and psychoanalysis; on a poem, sometimes two; on poetry in general; on thought itself. The poems are beautiful, some are contemporary, some are classical and well worth a reader's attention. "The motive for metaphor" is the title of a short poem of Wallace Stevens in which he says he is "happy" with the subtleties of experience. He likes what he calls the "half colours...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782203265
• ISBN13: 9781782203261
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.9"