Naming
The White Knight explains a confusing nomenclature for the song.
- The song's name is called Haddocks' Eyes
- The song's name is The Aged Aged Man
- The song is called Ways and Means
- The song is A-sitting On a Gate
The complicated terminology distinguishing between `the song, the name of the song, and what the name of the song is called' entails the use–mention distinction.
Read more about this topic: Haddocks' Eyes
Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)