An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith H

Tess Monaghan is asked to locate the wife and children of a wealthy Orthodox Jew who seems reluctant to provide Tess with all of the information she needs to fi

Pictures relate the building of a spider web and its destruction by man.

A spider, blown by the wind to a fence post near a farm yard, begins to build her web and cannot be distracted from the task at hand--not by the horse, cow, she