Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood

Metaphors, particularly the more sophisticated  metaphors, the ones that are the most immediate and meaningful, are multi-layered and operate at great depth.  Our very consciousness draws it energy from metaphor-making.

The  journeys we take metaphors are, like other metaphors, invested with meaning by the connections we make between knowledge and representation.  The power of the journeys metaphor rests with the transformative nature of the resonance produced by those interacting cognitive structures from which the metaphor is constructed.  With each step we take, we create reflective abstractions which we use for making sense of the world.  Each step is a genesis; each step is a resurrection.

To where it bent in the undergrowth;