"My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;/ And I myself see not the bottom of it."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


Date
1609
Metaphor
"My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;/ And I myself see not the bottom of it."
Metaphor in Context
My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;
And I myself see not the bottom of it.
(III.iii.311)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Whyte's The Unconscious Before Freud (p. 85).
Date of Entry
04/01/2004
Date of Review
10/22/2003

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.