His Interest In The Image Is Largely Psychological, For He Sees In This Picture Of A River Overbearing

His interest in the image is largely psychological, for he sees in this picture of a river overbearing its boundaries a perfect analogy to the result of stress or rush of emotion in men, as when Brabantio, distraught on hearing Desdemona has left him for Othello, cries to the duke: my particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

In the act of thinking anything, metonymies, metaphors, anecdotes, illustrations historical or fantastic, start up in his mind, become incorporate with his primary thought, and are in fact, its language. A study of the imagery is thus a stepping-stone to the study of the thought. Metaphor and symbol are the language of poetry.

The Imagery of Thomas De Quincy's Impassioned Prose - Dwyer (1965)

In any analysis arrived of the quality and characteristics of a writer’s senses, it is possible in some degree to separate and estimate his senses of touch, smell, hearing and taste, but his visual sense is so all-embracing — for it is indeed the gateway by which so large a portion of life reaches the poet;

Shakespeares Imagery And What It Tells Us (1923)

by Spurgeon, Caroline. F.

Metaphor is essentially an expression of an inward situation in outward and concrete terms. Broadly speaking, it can be said that, while metaphor reflects those inward events of which the poet is clearly conscious, and involves a conscious mode of thought and manipulation of words, a symbol reflects the stirring of massive intuitions inaccessibl. to reason. From a study of the imagery, therefore, may follow a discovery of the symbolism.

The Imagery of Thomas De Quincy's Impassioned Prose - Dwyer (1965)

      Each of the Major arcana reflect a level of awareness that we achieve through life. The numerological values express a progression of spiritual states rather than a sequential process. 

      In order to work with the Planets in your chart, or even begin to understand the universal laws, you have to receive the multitude of your own spiritual potential.

      If you don’t know which cards these descriptions are for, I made a PDF to help you out.

The real revelation of the writer (as of the artist) comes in a far subtler way than by autobiography; and comes despite all effort to elude it; ... For what the writer does communicate is his temperament, his organic personality, with its preferences and aversions, its pace and rhythm and impact and balance, its swiftness or languor ... and this he does equally whether he be rehearsing veraciously his own concerns or inventing someone else’s.

Shakespeares Imagery And What It Tells Us (1923)

by Spurgeon, Caroline. F.