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Using the metaphor "You've got an albatross around your neck" The band Foxing has an album called "The Albatross". And reference the word albatross on the songs "Bloodhound", and "Tom Bley". Gorillaz refers to the albatross in the song "Hip Albatross", as a metaphor for the burden of the undead.
The Martian poets were English poets of the 1970s and early 1980s, including Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Through the heavy use of curious, exotic, and humorous metaphors, Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of "the familiar" in English poetry, by describing ordinary things as if through the eyes of a Martian.
An English-language modernist group founded in 1914 that poetry based on description rather than theme, and on the motto, "the natural object is always the adequate symbol" [94] Ezra Pound, H.D., Richard Aldington: Dada: Touted by its proponents as anti-art, the Dada avant-garde focused on going against artistic norms and conventions [95]
The word "nigger" appears in children's literature. "How the Leopard Got His Spots", in the Just So Stories (1902) by Rudyard Kipling, tells of an Ethiopian man and a leopard, both originally sand-colored, deciding to camouflage themselves with painted spots, for hunting in tropical forest. The story originally included a scene wherein the ...
Apophasis (/ ə ˈ p ɒ f ə s ɪ s /; from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis), from ἀπόφημι (apóphemi) 'to say no') [1] [2] is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. [3]
Fowler, Roger (1981). "Review of Language in Modern Literature: Innovation and Experiment". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 80 (3): 457– 459. ISSN 0363-6941. JSTOR 27708866. Hauck, Richard Boyd (1981). "Review of Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today, ; Edges of Extremity: Some Problems of Literary Modernism.
Down These Mean Streets is a “book claimed by [many] literary traditions, such as U.S. Latin[@] literature or Hispanic literature of the U.S. and Puerto Rican literature written in English.” [16] Anne Garland Mahler of the University of Virginia, on the other hand, classifies Down These Mean Streets as “an autobiography and bildungsroman ...
' where are they ') is a rhetorical question taken from the Latin phrase Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning 'Where are those who were before us?'. Ubi nunc (lit. ' where now ') is a common variant. [1] Sometimes interpreted to indicate nostalgia, the ubi sunt motif is a meditation on mortality and life's transience.