I remember my English teacher covering metaphor. No disrespect to her but you do a much better job here. This is a really useful explanation thank-you. I would welcome more videos on metaphor, perhaps concentrating on a specific classic like Wuthering Heights. Or a few classics per metaphor video. Do any other Tristan fans agree with me?
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I am glad you took my purportedly serious comment in the way it was intended! I was joshing of course. I do like your new look though. You certainly look the part - that is true. And thank-you for all your content. Your enthusiastic and heart-felt videos really help us better understand the classics.
The California Zephyr is a passenger train. I would think that's what the author had in mind. But you're right in your examples of good and bad metaphors (god awful bad).
Thank you for this. I have read a number of modern writers that use metaphors that make no sense, which I find really irritating. In fact,it’s often enough to make me give up on the book.
Excellent video ! I’m not a writer, but I do read a lot of books - many on your recommendation. My awareness of metaphor was subconscious at best. Thanks for helping to bring them up to full consciousness.
Thank you for this! I'm currently reading All Quiet on the Western Front and the metaphors used have been so impactful for me. It's caused me to pause several times to lean in and feel the situation being described. A powerful book.
I loved this video. It helped me realize why I connect better with some authors. And some writing just doesn’t make sense to me, because of the Mishmash of metaphors. Videos like this help my awareness while reading.
Metaphors - a Powerful video! Contrary to your suspicion, I did watch - to the end - and I now report: you Have given me an important set of observatory tools that will significantly enhance and strengthen my appreciation of my reading. Another excellent video, Tristan, such quality as this continues to propel you higher in my esteem. Simply, masterful work……thank you so very much.
Ray Bradbury does a masterful job with subtle metaphorical prose. His phrases often seem poetic without the metaphor being apparent… it merely haunts the backstage of the audience’s minds.
Thank you for explaining so well and for providing examples of good as well as of bad metaphors. I'll try to locate and note the better ones in what I'll be reading. ❤📚
This was one video that I wasn’t drawn to because I’m never going to write a book and wasn’t interested in similes and metaphors but this was a very interesting video, and I do think that after watching this I will be looking at the words in a book with a different frame of mind. I’ll be more interested in the details in the book instead of just turning pages without getting the most out of it.
I’ve read The Book Thief. Liked it. Unfathomable humanity. Can’t read holocaust stories unless I’m in a good stable mood. Autumn in California is generally beautiful and warm from Indian Summer to crisp, sunny mornings until the solstice. For me it’s a feel good season. I’ve been wanting to read Turgenev stories for a while and may schedule that.
Is this guy a college professor? If not, he needs to be. If all prof's were so knowledgeable and infectious as Tristan I would even feel good about spending all my money on tuition.
A great explanation, as usual, and it has definitely made me want to read some more of George Eliot. Out of interest, who is the translator of this version of ‘Eugénie Grandet’? It reads very nicely in English, and I’d be interested to see how it compares with the original.
I greatly admire your work. I'm an unofficial student of english literature. But, I face a trouble while reading the classics or novels, that I kind of lose track of the story. It sometimes frustrates me. I try and come back to book again and again. Can you please help me in approving literature in a manner where I stick through the story?. Just for your information, english is not my native language but I like the musicality and sweetness ot the language. Hope to hear form you ASAP. Tha ka
Tristan, first of all, thank you for all it is you do reguarding books. Secondly, have you ever read Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger? I am convenced, after recently finishing it, that it is a classic. Thomas Berger is masterful when it comes to describing the worst of situations and extracting humor from them in the most respectable way. I believe you would thoroughly enjoy it, if you have not already done so.
"It was strange how in no time at all everybody went from fear to being excruciatingly bored, and the very women who yesterday had been helpless victims and just minutes earlier were howling in fright, now began to advance on him threatening with their fists and saying: 'Git on out of here, you old skunk!' Which shows something about the way a female is put together; she will suffer any outrage so long as it is interesting, but bore her and she don't know fear." I liken this quote to that of Santiagos description of the sea as it relates to women. It, in particular, stood out to me while reading Little Big Man.
Hi Tristan, do you have also a (your own) channel in Podcast? I don’t want to come to RU-vid because I always tempted to watch other high released dopaminie😂 videos.
The ink bottle toppled over and, like that primordial explosion, the liquid universe expanded - mercilessly consuming, and effortlessly infinite -all over my pants. Hands dance on my head without permission, to the music of shock. Now, I look like a banned cartoon from the 1940s, and only the Starbucks toilet protects me like mother wolf finding Mowgli in the jungle. Save me, ‘O bearded bard of books classic.
Tristan: at 32:52, when you said “I’m not going to give you the book …” were you being sarcastic? Because you do give us viewers both the author and title of the book from where the metaphors are excerpted (like at 33:10).
Any thoughts on writing in English as a foregin language? I have dealt with the most difficult pieces of English literature and love reading them. I do write quite well in my native language as well but when it comes to writing in English I suddenly get blocked!
Excuse me. I thought that I heard you say that you wouldn’t name the author because you didn’t want to off put a possible good read for someone. Yet when you posted the passage, the name and the author were seen at the bottom.
Metaphor: Tristan's beard is an encrustation of barnacles. Note: I prefer the beardless Tristan. NB: However, if you decide to keep the beard, add a Greek fisherman's cap to complete the look!
😂😂😂 I'll look out for one. I didn't grow it deliberately. I merely left my razor at a hotel and after a few days growth (I had some days off so didn't need to shave) friends and family asked me to grow a beard as I've never had one in my life. I'm not sure I'll keep it but it will stay for a short time so I get my moneys worth from my beard trimmer. 😂❤️😀
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Wonderful! I look forward to the old (though younger looking, and quite dashing) Tristan to appear again in a "short time."
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Ha ha! It does look nice. (And I am very picky about beards on guys. Not that my opinion should matter in the least, LOL!) Just don't let it to get to the Gandalf / Dumbledore stage. You're too young!
You are spot on, as usual, xavier. I was speaking in rather broad terms. Sometimes I think to myself, "I bet someone picks up on this." This one actually escaped me. You are always there to keep me on my toes, thank you. 😂😀❤️👍
