...and that glory — in a new way. In Percy Shelley's words, the poet (and by this he means any artist) "lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world and makes familiar 9. George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan, 16. 10. The text of the Spiritual Exercises used here is found...

...only meaning of poetry that truly matters, is its effect on you, as you hear it or read it. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world...familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. " Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792- 1822) When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his...

...al., Criticism, 250. The same idea is memorably phrased in Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry": "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,...familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." Ibid. 459. 2 2 . In The Introduction of Socialism Into China Dr. Li Yu-ning lists chu-yi (shugi), li-hsiang...

...of Poetry, "participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one" by lifting a dark veil to reveal the "hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."25 The poet's imagination is "an instrument of knowledge of the real," allowing us to understand...

..."Break, Break, Break" or "Crossing the Bar," he could agree with Sheridan's perspective that, "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world...familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." It is on this footing that I intend to deal with Urhobo poetry. The language of poetry is picturesque...

...moreover, describes the cultivation of the imagination as a process of familiarization; poetry, as it 'lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,...familiar objects be as if they were not familiar' (Ingpen and Peck, vii, 117), renders the familiar, ideal, or synonymously, the ideal, familiar. Just...

...term but Shelley enthuses over the same process in A Defence of Poetry. 'Poetry lifts the veil from the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar1 (1958: 21). at which the appearance of the page is 'defamiliarised'. However, we need to...

...shrouded in the metaphor of the veil and anticipate Shklovsky's observations by a century: "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,...familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. [. . .] It creates anew the universe, after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence...

...into another thing or into an emotion or idea' (Kinzie, 1 999: 435). As Shelley wrote of poetry, it 'lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as they were not familiar'. In Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson contend that 'Metaphorical thought...