Bl-Inkable

I thought this sounded pretty good... what do you think?

How does one describe an unknown thing to a friend?  How can one share its meaning?  If only there were a way to use ideas and knowledge the listener already understands.  Perhaps by using some correlation to what is already known.  That may just be possible.  In fact, it has been attempted throughout literary history.  Was the writer successful?  A dear friend, Robert Frost used such descriptions, better known as metaphors, in his poem, “Fire and Ice” (Frost, R. 1920).  He speaks of the end of Earth in terms of fire and ice, yet he allows the reader to ponder the interpretation of how fire or ice could end the Earth.  Does this create images of what Frost could be describing?  This is the power of figures of speech.  It calls up the reader’s own experience and knowledge, empowers and drives the emotion within.  What substance makes up ink that would give it such power over the lives of men?

Frost, R. (1920). Fire and ice. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173527