題組內容

4. Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’other do.

Carefully read the above quotation, and answer the following questions:

(a) The above quotation is a famous example of the literary technique of making unusual comparison in the seventeenth century metaphysical poetry. What is the technique called?