Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 19:18:34 -0600
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Enameled In Fire



>Looking at it from the point of view of metaphor, it's very common and almost
>a cliche to talk about love being strengthened (tempered) in the same manner
>as steel. The fires of adversity, so to speak, make true love stronger instead
>of destroying it.
>
>And here's another aspect of enamelware. Most people don't know the word, or
>don't understand the process.  So this doesn't make for very good metaphor.
>

>pat sloane

You are absolutely right, so what you do is give the poet the benefit of
the doubt, and assume that this is _not_ how he is using it, since, as I
said earlier, it would be redundant as well as trite.
g




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