The image formed by this metaphor is that when we touch a hot thing, our first reaction is to move away from it. ... Also, rather than adopting a serious tone when talking about a topic such as the mind, Mackowski adopts a cheerful approach using sentences like "red pebbles dropped in the brain's gray pool" (Line 22-23) to create a light environment which allows the reader to relax and sink in to the poem. ...

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In relation to the people Socrates loved to question, being the powers-that-be of the city of Athens, Aristotle discusses in "On the Soul- how intellect is not a part of the body, because it would have to have an organ or a certain specific sensation, like hot or cold, to sort of prove its existance at all. ... Through Plato's "Socrates' Apology- we can get a visual of Socrates questioning his fellow Athenians about a myriad of topics with countless philosophical directions, questioning the very thing that drives them and makes them work until they come to the revelation they are pre...

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