England v France.

So they should say Heaven then. Don't use stupid metaphors.

 

I'm not the one using metaphors, William Blake, one of the most seminal figures in poetry and the visual arts did.

You don't understand poetry very well it seems.

 

It was written in a time where everything was in metaphors. You just need to look at William Blake's stuff.

 

Snap. I'm teaching a Blake poem to my Year 5 class at the moment. You'll never guess which one...

 

Erm... The Little Vagabond?

 

Football is evil in the eyes of ISIS and banned.

 

The Tyger. Little vagabond is quite a good un. I really want to do James Joyce, but it's not in the curriculum. Until A Level anyway.

 

Maybe they prefer American Football?

Said no-one ever.

 

Also, phrasing.

 

You don't understand English very well. I said: "So they should say Heaven then." "They" is plural. If I was referring to you I would have said: "So you should say Heaven then." "You" is singular.
I don't care if William Blake or King Kong wrote it - metaphors are still unnecessary. Using metaphors is because you don't have the ability to write clearly. Can you imagine what life would be like if I said I was riding my bicycle on the motorway and somebody said that you can't ride bicycles on the motorway and I responded with "bicycle" is a metaphor for a "car"? Not many people bothered about William Blake while he was alive.

 

Sounds unnecessarily confusing.

 

I'll say it again, someone clearly has no understanding of poetry.

Anyways, I'm off down to the pub, goodnight.

 

Not really, metaphors were used as a way to code messages into literature. Most of Blake's stuff was based on religion (or that's one interpretation) and poems such as the Lamb were testament to this. People didn't want poems that were all about God and that, so he'd slip messages in that people who liked God could decode and appreciate.

I mean, a metaphor is essentially a symbol of something else. We use symbols all the time in advertising. If somebody sings that Justin Timberlake song "I'm loving it", you think of Maccy D's. Clever.

 

Well if you have no understanding of English you don't have a chance of understanding poetry - unless you read or write poetry in a different language.

 

ISIS execute 13 football fans by firing squad for watching Iraq play Jordan on TV in Islamist-controlled Mosul

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Islamist-controlled-Mosul.html#ixzz3rZyH8blL

I knew ISIS were ****s but I didn't know football was banned. Come to think of it I think football was banned under Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

 

Why is Pete on a mission to be the most boring and annoying **** on the Internet?

NB. There are no confusing metaphors in the above.

Seriously Pete, you need to stop. You're ruining threads.

 

I prefer Bob Dylan who uses too many metaphors for my liking but he does plenty I like. I've never felt the need to listen to Justin Timberlake.
When I write poems I write them for me and not to share them with other people. In this way I don't care whether other people like them.

 

Your throne is safe.

 

What about other sport? I can't think of any logic in banning football alone.

 

Well fine, but Blake didn't write poems just for him. You listen to Justin Timberlake every time you see a Maccy D's ad. He's done some great songs if you ask me, plenty to bust a move to while pissed in a club.