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Podcast: Myth in the Mojave
Episode: How to Read a Poem with Phillip Rosenberg
Description: “. . . a metaphor is a myth in brief.” Giambattista VicoMany of the ancient myth are poems, Homer’s Odyssey and the Norse Poetic Edda, for example, and the Sumerian myths of Inanna, Dumuzi, and Gilgamesh. These old stories were also songs or hymns. Today we typically tell stories in prose but the link between mythology and poetry is still vital and relevant. That link is metaphor.Metaphors reach beyond what is known, into the mystery. We can learn to use and understand metaphor by studying poetry. Joseph Campbell said that studying poetry was one way that w...