My oral presentation mainly focuses on the familiarity of metaphor and the article "Neural Correlates of Metaphor Processing". To distant my blog post from the same concepts, this post will mainly focus on a section of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" that I really enjoyed. The section I found really beautiful is the section discussing the yellow fog and smoke. I mention this in my presentation, but mainly to use as an example in class rather than discuss the actual metaphors present in the lines and how many layers there are in the poem. I felt the yellow fog was a metaphor for his thoughts. While the idea of an animal, such as a cat, are present through the language, I feel that that is the metaphor at the surface. Once you dig a little deeper, you realize that this section is in fact directly discussing consciousness, and is using the metaphor of a cat, disguised by the metaphor of fog, to explore this. This suggests that there are many layers to metaphors; I would never generalize to say that each and every metaphor has another layer, but it does suggest that we as critical readers must explore metaphors at a level more than simply what immediately strikes us. The window panes seem to reflect the brain and how our thoughts and consciousness envelope our brain, just as the yellow fog is enveloping the window panes.
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