The metaphor as a thoroughness space

Abstract

The thoroughness gesture and the attention to language that metaphor implies, is one of the greatest rational thought foundations. When metaphor comes to be part of written language, it becomes the object of expression of imagination in the exact place of the page. Along these lines, the mind reconfigures itself giving rise to depictions, scenarios and images coming from the relationships between the words employed. By all the latter, I mean that the written word creates what I would call mental and emotional scenarios to think, to play with words and their signification, to recreate phenomena with them and to raise questions. The way in which poetry, through metaphor, stops at the facts and ideas themselves does not really differ from other thinking processes carried out in different intellectual activities. There is even a seeking spirit that, in the case of poets, implies a subjective consciousness and, in the case of scientist, implies an attempt for a total absence of it, which motivates both poets and scientists alike.