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The Poet, However, Uses These Two Crude, Primitive, Archaic Forms Of Thought (simile And Metaphor) In The Most Uninhibited Way, Because His Job Is Not To Describe Nature, But To Show You A World Completely Absorbed And Possessed By The Human Mind.

The Metaphor Of The King As The Shepherd Of His People Goes Back To Ancient Egypt. Perhaps The Use Of This Particular Convention Is Due To The Fact That, Being Stupid, Affectionate, Gregarious, And Easily Stampeded, The Societies Formed By Sheep Are Most Like Human Ones.

Between Religion's This Is And Poetry's But Suppose This Is, There Must Always Be Some Kind Of Tension, Until The Possible And The Actual Meet At Infinity.

In Literature, Questions Of Fact Or Truth Are Subordinated To The Primary Literary Aims Of Producing A Structure Of Words For Its Own Sake, And The Sign-values Of Symbols Are Subordinated To Their Importance As A Structure Of Interconnected Motifs.

A Writers Desire To Write Can Only Have Come From Previous Experience Of Literature, And He'll Start By Imitating Whatever He's Read, Which Usually Means What The People Around Him Are Writing.