Metaphoric mist, <br />like similes that rain <br />upon the page resist <br />the meaning that is plain, <br /> <br />Artifice that feeds <br />the poet's parking meter, <br />mixed metaphors, like weeds, <br />may need an exegeter. <br /> <br />Precious is the prism, <br />the rainbow of the image <br />of metaphoric scrimmage, <br />as neat as neologism. <br /> <br /> <br />Richard Jenkyns reviews 'Virgil: His Life and Times, ' by Peter Levi (St. Martin's Press) and 'The Eclogues of Virgil: A Translation by David Ferry' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) in 'Immemorial Elms' (TNR) , August 30,1999) . He quotes Levi with approval: 'Dido comes with her crowd of young men and her mist of metaphor.' <br /> <br /> <br />8/24/99<br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/metaphoric-mist/
