Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Poetical Figures. [ARTICLE]

Poetical Figures.

Common people often use figures of speech which are l»oth poetical and strong. While visiting in Norfolk, near the North Sea, Tennyson was much impressed with the saying which he there heard: “The sea is moaning for the loss of the wind.” This poetical saying he used to compare with another he heard used by an old fishwoman who had lost two sous at sea. On a stormy day she, clenching her fist at the advancing tide, cried out: “Ay! roar, do! How I hates to see thee show thy white teeth!”