YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Significance of Metaphor
Essays 31 - 60
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
and strategic; if the army occupies temporary positions along this line, they will be "strategic positions."4 When the army meets...
and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...
(Dearman, 1998) and we often hear that phrase being used to describe the relationship between Israel and God. He was the living Go...
terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...
theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...
and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...
on which he has been marooned for twenty years, it would appear as if his ship would have nothing but smooth sailing back to Ithac...
shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...
are some of the values" that remain basic American ideals, throughout our history and today (Gannon, 1994, p. 306). In addition to...
who is so conditioned by the state that he is unable to survive in the real world. Finally, a violent past which he is unable to c...
the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...
Clearly, the relationship between Southwest Airlines marketing division as guided by owner Herb Kelleher and the metaphoric Irish ...
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...
on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...
scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...
at Dukes by Aram Bakshian Jr., which appeared in the American Spectator in 1993 will be utilized. It is a lighthearted piece that...
such as when an individual describes himself as being "torn in two", "up against a wall", or "hot-blooded" in which individuals ma...
Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...
the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...
outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...
Chameleons prey primarily on insects but they also take other small animals as the opportunity presents itself. Their tong-like f...
that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...
those in mind, the student might consider something like the following. We start with a simile: The apartment is like a cave at t...
partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...
began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience" (Albom, 1997, p. 1). Martins essay is...