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Bernhard Frank criticizes the metaphors Shakespeare uses to describe the passage of time, be it the coming of death or simply the loss of youth. Though lyrical, they are logically off and quite cliché, being the overused themes of seasonal change, sunset, and burn.
Definition Context Notes At peace [1] Dead Euphemistic: At rest [1] Dead Polite: Augered in Died via aircraft crash Slang As documented in The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe: Belly up [1] Dead Informal The orientation of fish when dead Beyond the grave [1] After death Neutral In reference to communication with the dead Beyond the veil [2]
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. Kennings for a particular character are listed in that character ...
Scholars have noted that the form of the poem follows the content: the wavelike quality of the long-then-short lines parallels the narrative thread of the poem. The extended metaphor of "crossing the bar" represents travelling serenely and securely from life into death. The Pilot is a metaphor for God, whom the speaker hopes to meet face to face.
English-language haiku: an unrhymed tercet poem in the haiku style. Lekythion : a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse. Landay : a form of Afghani folk poetry that is composed as a couplet of 22 syllables.
Even as the poem mourns Lincoln, there is a sense of triumph that the ship of state has completed its journey. [76] Whitman encapsulates grief over Lincoln's death in one individual, the narrator of the poem. [77] Cohen argues that the metaphor serves to "mask the violence of the Civil War" and project "that concealment onto the exulting crowds".
Dead metaphors are generally the result of a semantic shift in the evolution of a language, [1] a process called the literalization of a metaphor. [2] A distinction is often made between those dead metaphors whose origins are entirely unknown to the majority of people using them (such as the expression "to kick the bucket") and those whose source is widely known or symbolism easily understood ...