Only through similies can some idea of It be conveyed.
By using these similies of fire and air, the teacher tries to show Nachiketas the subtle quality of the great Self, who, although one and formless like air and fire, yet assumes different shapes according to the form in which It dwells.
Although inconceivably subtle, the Sages have always made an effort through similies and analogies to give some idea of this inner Self or the God within.
As I have hinted that Theocritus had a Genius capable of writing a perfect Set of Pastorals, his Similies are infinitely the best of any Swain's.
It is observable, that in all the similies we meet with many of the very rhymes that Pope has used.
In what English poem of that age will he find similies dressed in the modern garb with which Chatterton has clothed them throughout these pieces?
Even the smallest of living things, that would surely be thought beneath his notice, became the subject of similies that show how much everything in nature interested the spirit of genius.
As for the birds his pages are full of references to them and all of his bird similies are couched in terms that show how sympathetically observant he was of their habits and ways.
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