Borges "The Metaphor" Analysis

-          The amount of viable metaphors is staggering

-          Argentine poet Lugones thought that poets were often using the same metaphors, so he decided to create metaphors of his own for the moon

-          Lugones also stated, “that every world is a dead metaphor”

-          When using a word we often forget that they are metaphors for meanings that we don’t often think about

-          The ordering of the words in a metaphor often cause the reader to take away different meanings (patterns can be the same, but meanings are different)

-          Patterns- endless time, brutal word negated by the use of a beautiful/peaceful one, life being a dream (“Have I dreamt my life, or was it a true one?” –Walther von der Vogelweide)

-          What is really important is the fact not that there are a few patterns, but that those patterns are capable of almost endless variation.