“It is instructive, is it not? — that a painting will be at once the object of visual apprehension… and a demonstration (or transmission) of -ways of seeing-? And so, too, statements in language may be at once objects of linguistic apprehension, and convey this same kind of experience — yet in this case the insight is usually more relational than visual. Metaphor, simile, song, and poetics all make significant use of this ‘dual nature’ in that might be held as analogous to the manipulation of perspective in images to express and manipulate tone, character, focus, depth, and emphasis.”

— an a i