Naming of Parts

Yesterday I ran across the term synecdoche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche and a number of other terms used for linguistic analysis. Most of those terms were names for things I understood, but was unaware they even had names.

Today it's the § and some other names for typographical symbols (or, signs) that I learned following the links provided.

I suddenly feel like I'm back in English Composition class. (But without the exams, so that's a good thing. At least, I'm hoping there won't be an exam... _[ellipsis])

Thanks for the interesting post!

Did you like the poem?

Not at first, since it was confusing to me. But as I read along and saw what the poet was doing, I appreciated his juxtaposition of terms of weaponry with terms of nature and flowers.

Btw, I've got some flowering quince near (well, not too near) the entryway at the front of my house. The spikes on it are lethal, though not as lethal as the loaded rifle he's learning how to use.

I had much the same reaction when I first read it. It leaves me with a feeling of bleakness for man's behaviour and another that "nature" will just carry on regardless and rewardless.

I want to take the "young lad" away from the horrors that are to come. Don't expect much sense out of me 2014-2018 - I'll be in floods of tears over the senseless waste of human life 100 years ago. I don't know why, but that war in particular hits me hard. dulce et decorum est my foot.

Yes, that describes my reaction better than I could have put into words myself. I like your comment about nature carrying on not only regardless but 'rewardless.'

'The Great War' caused the death and serious injury of many of Great Britain's best and brightest. Senselessly in most cases, fighting over the same little patch of ground again and again. One wonders how much more creative, productive and dynamic Great Britain might have been had they never fought this war, or not fought it the way they did. Perhaps a more industrious and dynamic GB could have been the counter-force needed to stop the rise of the Nazis and prevent WWII and thus Henry Reed's participation in it.

Since the behaviour of the victors after WWI had a direct bearing on the rise if the NAZIs, and on Hilter's world view, handling it differently could have prevented it. In addition, coming clean about the Persian oil at the heart of the conflict, rather than persisting with the myth that Archduke Ferdinand was so important may also have had an effect.

I always wondered why the whole of Europe went to war over a very minor royal...

Of course, if "friend" Adolf had stuck to painting, a lot of things would be different.