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All right a p laying people got another one who's

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past tuesday analyze its taken from a nineteenth century article

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in a british art journal in the first paragraph the

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extended metaphor of mining serves tio what Now you go

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back first paragraph and kind of re skim it Alright

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knowledge human labor and minimal human immune to conquer and

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shapes of these The last should always be orderly because

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i have some conception of the vault But i'm going

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to make me tribe in the apartment But the labour

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of seeking must often remove broken in the mine which

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we're now in the souls of men as your governor

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Mysteries and handicrafts being renewed Okay so lot of drivel

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about making art When questions ask about the purpose of

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a metaphor you've got to consider the nature of the

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metaphor itself like what's mining like It's confusing aimless dark

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and as the author says wrench into dark and divided

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ways If the luber that's six for things is like

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mining well it must also be confusing aimless and rent

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into dark and divided ways We liked that phrase well

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The connection between mining in the mechanical arts mentioned later

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is purely coincidental because the author john ruskin they're speaking

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about literal mechanical arts later and here mining is used

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as a metaphor So while we could get rid of

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be right away Likewise the contrast ruskin establishes in the

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fifth paragraph is literal not figure him So get rid

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of sea Right We just said that utility of art

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hasn't been addressed in this first paragraph there nor there

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any clues that the other was at one point a

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minor Yeah Get rid of e You dig All right

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so the answer is a the extended metaphor of mining

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serves to emphasize the enigmatic nature of knowledge Yeah so

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it's a

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