The use of new metaphors and synonyms
Posted: 03 Apr 2014, 17:09
I have, for the past couple of years, attempted to refrain from constructing sentences using the same worn out words and phrases I scribbled hundreds of times in the past. One of the reasons why I read classic literature is because I find the vocabulary of the past to have great depth, since, as it was back then, there were no tech toys to distract one from reading.
Surely, there were other creative outlets then such as sculpting and painting, and we've gained much by those disciplines, thankfully. Yet, as I see it, reading was the only resource to grasp for most farmhands by which they could self educate and mature intellectually.
It is amazing, also, to realize just how much illiteracy existed at times when writers displayed such extensive vocabularies. It seems today we've lost that art. We're far too street connected perhaps.
At what grade level are most novels written today, do you suppose?
Surely, there were other creative outlets then such as sculpting and painting, and we've gained much by those disciplines, thankfully. Yet, as I see it, reading was the only resource to grasp for most farmhands by which they could self educate and mature intellectually.
It is amazing, also, to realize just how much illiteracy existed at times when writers displayed such extensive vocabularies. It seems today we've lost that art. We're far too street connected perhaps.
At what grade level are most novels written today, do you suppose?