Glossary
For Jiang, not just a literary ornament but a device that forces the imagination to connect things that do not look related at first glance.
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simile
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...it forces you to see the connection. Okay? What is a simile? A simile is an unseen connection. Right? The sky is a snail...."
Key Notes
definition
He defines poetry as the act of putting together ideas that may not already be related so that imagination is forced to see a hidden connection.
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"...it forces you to see the connection. Okay? What is a simile? A simile is an unseen connection. Right? The sky is a snail...."
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"Passing beyond the human cannot be worded. Let Glaucus serve as simile until grace grants you the experience. Whether I only was the part..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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