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A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".
Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...
Extended metaphor (aka sustained metaphor): the exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors and vehicles throughout a poem. [5] Allegory: an extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning. Often, the meaning of an allegory is religious, moral, or ...
‘So High School’ (The Tortured Poets Department) “You know how to ball / I know Aristotle.” Later in the song, Swift also mentions “laughing in the middle of practice.” (Early in her ...
The Lucy poems: William Wordsworth [59] [140] "The Machine Stops" Standing in the Light: Level 42 "The Machine Stops" E. M. Forster [5] "Macondo" Óscar Chávez: One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez: Based on the fictional town Macondo, used by Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude and other of his works. [54] "Martin Eden ...
who saved mankind, being lost, giving life for death eleyson lest your pastured sheep should perish, O Jesus, good shepherd eleyson. Consoler of suppliant spirits below, we beseech thee eleyson, O Lord, our strength and our salvation for eternity eleyson, O highest God, grant to us the gifts of eternal life and have mercy upon us eleyson. [5]
With an inexact metaphor, however, a metaphier might have associated attributes or nuances – its paraphiers – that enrich the metaphor because they "project back" to the metaphrand, potentially creating new ideas – the paraphrands – associated thereafter with the metaphrand or even leading to a new metaphor. For example, in the metaphor ...
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...