A landscape may poise like "A postcard in front of us / As though we'd settled it there, just so, / Halfway between the mind's eye and the mind, just halfway."

— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)


Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date
2002
Metaphor
A landscape may poise like "A postcard in front of us / As though we'd settled it there, just so, / Halfway between the mind's eye and the mind, just halfway."
Metaphor in Context
It is a kind of believing without belief that we believe in,
This landscape that goes,
                                        no deeper than the eye, and poises like
A postcard in front of us
As though we'd settled it there, just so,
Halfway between the mind's eye and the mind, just halfway.
(p. 50)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Charles Wright, A Short History of the Shadow (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
05/05/2009

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