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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".
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Although it is one of the most famous quotes from the work of Shakespeare, no printing in Shakespeare's lifetime presents the text in the form known to modern readers: it is a skillful amalgam assembled by Edmond Malone, an editor in the eighteenth century. Romeo and Juliet was published twice, in two very different versions.
Bird's-foot trefoil: Revenge [5] Bird of paradise flower: Liberty, magnificence, good perspective, joyfulness; faithfulness [4] Black-eyed Susan: Justice Blackthorn: Fate, protection, hope against adversity, good fortune; difficulty [5] Bladdernut: Frivolous amusement; [2] [3] [5] a trifling character [8] Bleeding Heart, Asian / Lamprocapnos
The poem calls upon the imagery of seafaring adventures with the use of the words "Sea" and "Gale". Dickinson uses the metaphor of hope as a bird that does not disappear when it encounters hardships or "storms". [10] Vendler writes that Dickinson enjoys "the stimulus of teasing riddles", as seen when she plays with the idea of hope as a bird. [5]
Full text Ode to a Nightingale at Wikisource " Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn , Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown , under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place , also in Hampstead.