Metaphors & Imagery in"Pigeon Woman" 
.... The second proberb/
metaphor, dead
love, stems from the final line of the poem: "they are the flints of
love." Flint is proverbially a spark stone, one that can ....
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"Pigeon Woman" by May Swenson
.... The second proberb/
metaphor, dead
love, stems from the final line of the poem: "they are the flints of
love." Flint is proverbially a spark stone, one that can ....
(1679
7
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Love and Possession
.... He makes us understand why we speak of the end of
love as a "loss", using the same
metaphor that we use to describe a lost fortune or a lost plot of family land ....
(1859
7
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The Sea as Metaphor & Symbol in Dover Beach
.... By using the image of the sea as a
metaphor for the Sea of Faith, Arnold .... with potential like a land of dreams, yet was actually empty of joy and
love and light ....
(810
3
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Poetry Analysis: Robert Herrick's "To His Mistress Objecting To ...
In the poem, Herrick uses a number of poetic tools from
metaphor to rhyme to illustrate the difference in emotion and gender when it comes to
love. ....
(808
3
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Metaphor in a Louise Gluck Poem
.... are ideas such as "
Love," who are seen "waltzing around in amusing disguises," that would fool the onlooker. ?By using this extended
metaphor, Gluck is able to ....
(594
2
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (John Donne) The poem "A Val
.... writing about. Donne further proves his facetiousness through the
metaphor of his
love relationship as a circle. The speaker tells ....
(1275
5
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Shakespeare's Plays About Love
.... to a hyperbolical world where such things actually happen, a world beyond the reach of
metaphor. .... By means of such hyperbole, we see that the
love of Antony and ....
(1953
8
)
Poetry and the Human Condition The complex emotio
.... He employs poetic devices such as extended
metaphor, simile, and rhyme, in order to express his own notion that art, like
love, only grows greater over the ....
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4
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Poetry and the Human Condition The complex emotio
.... He employs poetic devices such as extended
metaphor, simile, and rhyme, in order to express his own notion that art, like
love, only grows greater over the ....
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4
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Two Poems by John Donne
.... 388). Thus, this is one example in which Donne used an ancient model of astronomy in order to create a
metaphor for
love. In "
Love's ....
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Dreaming In Cuban
.... However, as much as blue is used as a
metaphor for
love and light and the joy of nature, it is also used to color some of the more violent and threatening ....
(1361
5
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Plato and the Sophists
.... Fowler trans., "Phaedrus" 138). He uses the
metaphor of "
love" to make his point. Rhetoric is a persuasive art. Persuasion-to-belief ....
(1713
7
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Plato as a Rhetorician
.... Fowler trans., "Phaedrus" 138). He uses the
metaphor of "
love" to make his point. Rhetoric is a persuasive art. Persuasion-to-belief ....
(1713
7
)
Analysis of 3 Poems: Love Song, My Papa's Waltz and On the Amtrak ...
.... he engaged in with his hardworking father by using the extended
metaphor of a "waltz .... In comparing the imprisoned aspect of
love, he imagines his beloved to be a ....
(846
3
)
Lucille Clifton's Poetry
.... sonnet, and the poet creates an image of age leading to a statement of the strength of
love. For most of the poem, the poet creates a
metaphor for aging in the ....
(1592
6
)
Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)
.... Death and life circle endlessly around one another in
Love Medicine, often indistinguishable. .... the book flirts with that home/death-water-life
metaphor as its ....
(1329
5
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Love and its Sorrows in Colette's Cherie
.... Again Colette shows LTa using the
metaphor of the foreigner as she indicates that "he might be a Chinee or an African" (34). It is as if
love is a travelling ....
(1952
8
)
World Literature: Asia
.... Mishima's short story Patriotism and Ai Qing's poem Dayahnhe-My Wet-Nurse both employ the device of a male-female relationship as
metaphor for
love of country. ....
(1539
6
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Literature from Japan & China
.... Mishima's short story Patriotism and Ai Qing's poem Dayahnhe-My Wet-Nurse both employ the device of a male-female relationship as
metaphor for
love of country. ....
(1536
6
)
Literary Treatments of the concept of Domesticity
.... The garden stands always as the
metaphor for
love in this story.
Love, like as normal garden, should nurture and bring forth beauty that is life-giving. ....
(3373
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Symbolism of Dreams in Hawthorne Stories
.... in which the
love of a father for a daughter challenges the
love of a .... The garden becomes a
metaphor for the situation, and the unhealthy nature of this garden ....
(2011
8
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Donne Canonization
.... We also see the use of
metaphor in the poem in the stanza when the speaker compares the
love of the couple to two taper candles whose heat and flame when they ....
(1505
6
)
Forms of Love
.... Similarly, Ezekiel 8 warns against the general perversion of
love and emotions .... This
metaphor alludes to what God revealed to Jeremiah (18:1-6), that man is mere ....
(4174
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Afro-American Music History: Article Review
.... African-American blues genre and the ways in which Johnson drew upon popular culture, creating a
metaphor in which the automobile stands in for a
love object. ....
(886
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Allegory, Symbolism & Typology in Literature
.... in which the
love of a father for a daughter challenges the
love of a .... The garden becomes a
metaphor for the situation, and the unhealthy nature of this garden ....
(2992
12
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Lancelot and Guinevere
.... in its evolution as a story, the tale of Lancelot and his
love for the .... inability to control his sexual desires and then his sexuality as a
metaphor, or perhaps ....
(870
3
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Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"
.... in which the
love of a father for a daughter challenges the
love of a .... The garden becomes a
metaphor for the situation, and the unhealthy nature of this garden ....
(1393
6
)
The Story of an Hour
....
metaphor to describe the life-cycle, to show how short it truly is, and so to argue that time is fleeting and so the lovers should consummate their
love while ....
(2043
8
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Critical Thinking and Language Essays
.... For example, "
love is a journey" is a
metaphor that maintains that
love is a series of steps that grows richer from start to finish. ....
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