"Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest, / Rending the sphere of our distracted breast!"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Editor
Date
1792
Metaphor
"Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest, / Rending the sphere of our distracted breast!"
Metaphor in Context
O, the fell conflict, the intestine strife,
This clash of good and evil, death and life!
What, what are all the wars of sea and wind,
Or wreck of matter, to This War of Mind?
Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest,
Rending the sphere of our distracted breast!

Who shall deliver, in a fight so fell;
Who save from this intestine dog of hell?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "guest" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
03/13/2006

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.