Metaphor

to ignore words and put his faith in actions. Save the air in your lungs for a war cry, do not waste it on insults. (104 words). Homer uses many nature metaphors to describe the fury of war, especially using metaphors for great fighters like Hector, or the wrath of Zeus, or the massive attacks done by either size. I think he uses nature metaphors because nature surrounded people and to the common person limited to the mundane life of farming, nature was one of the biggest controlling forces. I…

drums of the war are sounded in Europe, almost as if it is the winter of the whole world. Such a conceptualization foreshadows the universality of the war and warns of the imminent dire consequences, since winter corresponds in the LIFETIME IS A YEAR metaphor to death. The reiteration of the lexical items “snow,” “ice,” and “frost,” which evoke the metaphorical conception…

The metaphor of blindness means the loss of hope, power, and identity. In Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex, the great and powerful king of Thebes, Oedipus becomes unaware and not serious of his deeds. He had murdered many people which makes him feel blind and lonely in society. He had lost the admiration of his people because of his cruel and unjust actions. After the death of his mother and wife, Jocasta, he had realized his truth, identity, and how his life is filled with darkness. Oedipus had…

In this free verse poem, “A Song,” Walt Whitman is describing how great he believes America really is by using metaphors and by adding a touch of repetition, imagery, and personification to give the reader a warm and fuzzy feeling. The first line in this poem emotes a powerful feeling. By writing about “making the continent indissoluble,” Whitman is creating a backdrop for the rest of the poem. It allows the reader to understand that the words that follow include colossal ideas about a nation…

Beckett’s larger commentary on the purpose of human existence. Beckett wants to show how every individual’s life has no purpose or meaning. Before any thorough analysis can be made, it is important to understand the larger, extended metaphor that is this play—a metaphor for humankind. This idea is first introduced at the beginning of Pozzo’s first entrance: Estragon: “We are not from these parts, sir” Pozzo: “You are human beings none the less…Of the same species as myself…Made in God’s image!”…

Gender Metaphors in Traditional Chinese Stories Within the traditional Chinese stories about filial women, gender metaphors create a connection between how a wife must stay loyal to her marriage and how a devoted official must stay obedient towards his ruler. These gender metaphors are seen in the stories of Wang Zhaojun, Goiter Su, and Yurang. These stories connect female beauty and love to male virtue and loyalty to one’s king. Although these stories reveal the importance of diligence in…

In the story “All Summer In a Day’ Ray Bradbury includes many different metaphors just like how the sun is related to Margot’s hope for happiness.The sun also symbolizes everyone's missing happiness or hope for the one thing that's missing. Margot also has to deal with the other kids teasing and torment about her saying she saw the sun on earth and the kids hate her for that.When the scientists finally said the rain would stop after seven years those kids just had to lock her in the…

Holly Hughes’ Preaching to the Perverted uses a plethora of visual and oral language and metaphors to explore the context of her Supreme Court trial as part of the NEA 4. Within the performance, Hughes uses the American flag in different contexts as a metaphor to explore its different symbolic uses. She typically deals out the metaphors with an unconcerned, dry amusement that is critical to providing the social commentary in each moment. For example, at the beginning, she talks about the outrage…

Alfred Noyes uses Metaphors, similes, and repetition to emphasize his points and details on the highway man. The poem is not only a beautiful piece of literature but a wonderful example on how you can use gorgeous objects to describe a not so gorgeous person and events. “The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees,” this is the very first line of the first stanza in Alfred Noyes the Highwayman. This line is also the very first literary device Noyes uses in the poem, a metaphor. The…

The Use of Metaphors in Romeo and Juliet In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare employs metaphors to help the audience or reader with what is going on in the plot. The way Shakespeare puts metaphors to use, shows that he wants the audience to be intrigued the whole duration of the play. Shakespeare’s metaphors can help relieve a scene with comic relief or to aid in the deep emotion of the scene. He writes his metaphors to deepen his plot and to emphasize certain things in his writing.…