School is done, but then started right back up again. I think this is what the rest of my life will be like: school starting right after ending. This is anaphoristic. It's a good thing that I kinda like school, ya know, given the profession I'm entering and all. Anyways, I'm done with my certification courses and student teaching parts, and now I'm working out the provisional bits. This comes in the form of an American Lit course.

Something cool just happened. I love it when this stuff occurs. I started searching for some items of interest as I was typing up my notes about Walt Whitman. What is this term, anaphor? My instructor said it wasn't important in terms of this courses larger aims, but of COURSE I had to look it up. After I found the definition and saw how it fits within section [15] of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself (for a shorter version of the same thing by the same poet, try I Hear America Singing) I remembered a question I had with Meredith and her friends Sam, Kate, and Demetrius. --> -->

What are the parts of an analogy? you know, there's the A : B :: 1 : 2 stuff right? So there's a colon, and the double colon, which must have names. and then the antecedent and post-cedent parts. What're these bits, colons, etc. called?

Well, I Googled, and the first thing that came up for Analogy was this bit here, which of course fits in great with the term Anaphor and what Whitman was after in the poem.

IG Readers and Survey readers, here's how it fits:
Grass and its Potential Meanings in Whitman's Song of Myself
• Rebirth / Cycle of life / Unity / Repetition
• Nature and Natural unity
• Tied by something that you may not necessarily see (networked roots)
• Metaphor for Society, and an underlying theme to the poem
• Seeing Whitman as an “I” and potentially getting lost in the crowd

The concept of homology, or morphological correspondence, was the central tenet of philosophical anatomy. It was used to define structural similarity. Homologies, which are now defined in terms of evolution, were formerly interpreted in a transcendental sense. Arguably, Whitman was Transcendental, if only from his literary influences, like Thoreau. Homology is a systematic similarity -- when two parts occupy the same positions in distinct but otherwise isomorphic systems of relations, in their relative positions and in the connection of the parts. This conceptual reduction to schematic identity enables comparisons between organisms in terms of their similarities and difference. ... In his Metamorphosis of Plants, Goethe identified serial homologies in plants. This is also known today as homotypy and serially repeated parts are called homotypes. You should see the connections...


So awesome when that happens . . . you rock, Great Unspoken. Especially when you do cool stuff as opposed to freaking me out... And i still don't kow what the parts of an analogy are called, but this is a question i can carry with me. I'm satisfied though, because, I found something else cool.