Yesterday I watched another interesting Microsoft Research Lecture:
The Devious Logic of Metaphors by Leroy Searle
The talk covers the problems of metaphors, both philosophical and literary, as well as discussing the diffuculties metaphors pose in the field of artificial intelligence. Leroy Searle uses several poems as sources of examples over the course of the talk, and ends with some analysis of The Tempest. As before with Microsoft Reaserch Lectures, I had to watch this talk in an internet explorer tab in order for it to work.
Like Dust Thrown 