Excerpt from The Golden Treasury, Vol. 4: Selected and Arranged With Notes Here we get not merely the apt comparison of the passage of time with waves following one after another and disappearing, but also the quick pen-picture of the hurry of waves crowding each Other up the beach, a picture that intensifies the idea of the rapid passing of the minutes. When one thing is not merely compared to another, but spoken of as if it were that other, we have the figure known as metaphor. This, if the meaning is not obscure, is a more forcible figure than Simile, as it enables the poet to put his idea in a condensed, almost telegraphic, form. When Keats says (p. 75) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.