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Tag Archives: reading metaphorically
To Be Enchanted By Story
I’ve had the wonderful experience these past 10 weeks of reading story to four-year-olds, taking things a little deeper with my 6-9 year old group, with telling back what we saw and what it reminded us of, and then with … Continue reading →
Posted in Story, Story, Rhyme, & Song, Teaching
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Tagged brothers grimm, fairy tales, folk tales, images, medieval cosmology, metaphors, northrop frye, reading metaphorically, stories will save the world, stratford caldecott, universal story
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Because Look
Sometimes, perhaps most times, plain descriptive words cannot express an idea well enough, and so we use metaphor and images, or word pictures, to convey our thoughts. In my previous post, I shared how when my son was very young, … Continue reading →
Posted in Bible, Story
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Tagged metaphors, reading metaphorically, reality, seeing, transcendence, truth, vision, wisdom
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Appearances Can Be Deceiving; or First, Second, Third, even Fourth Impressions
In Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book IV, Canto V, there is a contest of knights’ ladies to determine ‘the fairest of them all’. The prize is a girdle which was made by Vulcan for his wife Venus, which he … Continue reading →
Posted in Bible, Character, My Personal History, Parenting, Story, Teaching
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Tagged character, corruption, discipline, edmund spenser, honesty, hypocrisy, integrity, reading metaphorically, reading rightly, stories will change the world, the faerie queene, truth, virtue, wisdom
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