Some might say that Annie Dillard is guilty of penning metaphysical conceits – in other words, creating metaphors or implicit comparisons “whose ingenuity is more striking than [their] justness.” Dillard’s unexpected juxtapositions are sometimes so outlandish that “we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness” (Gardner, xxiii). Consider one or two interesting metaphors or juxtapositions you’ve noticed in Dillard’s essays, and comment on a) what point she is making by linking two apparently unlike ideas, and b) how effective you find this combination to be. You may use a simple metaphor or simile (such as seeing a partial vs. total eclipse / kissing vs. marrying a man from “Total Eclipse”), or a larger, more implicit comparison (such as a bumbling Catholic congregation and polar explorers in “An Expedition to the Pole”).
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