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His guilt is aggravated by the pain and confusion his ‘dereliction” has inflicted on various children.” [7] [8] Problems and Other Stories is conspicuous in that “children assume the foreground” in several of the tales that track the “gulf [that widens] between them and their separating parents and sometimes erupts with suppressed ...
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". Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects
Klein's use of the metaphor centers on the moral nature of certain predictions, which tends to evoke in others "a refusal to believe what at the same time they know to be true, and expresses the universal tendency toward denial, [with] denial being a potent defence against persecutory anxiety and guilt." [3]
55 Chronic Pain Quotes. 1. "You can't go through life allowing pain to dictate how you behave. It's easy to sit here in your bedroom and wallow in your hurt feelings. It's hard to rise above it."
American singer/songwriter Carolyne Mas has a song titled "King of the U-Turn" that uses an albatross as a metaphor. The rock band Chevelle uses albatross as a metaphor in the song "Face to the Floor". Demon Hunter uses albatross as a metaphor in the song "Cross to Bear". The band Erra uses albatross as a metaphor in the song "Dreamwalkers".
16. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” — A. A. Milne 17. “The truth is we’re all a little bit ...
Illness as Metaphor was a response to Sontag's experiences as a cancer patient, as she noticed that the cultural myths surrounding cancer negatively affected her as a patient. She finds that, a decade later, cancer is no longer swathed in secrecy and shame, but has been replaced by AIDS as the disease most demonized by society.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.