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Metaphor Defined
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one object or idea is applied to another, thereby suggesting a likeness or analogy between them, as
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
--- Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
--- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
. . . The cherished fields
Put on their winter robe of purest white.
--- James Thomson, The Seasons
Sidelight: While most metaphors are nouns, verbs can be used as well:
Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas,
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high,
Are each paved with the moon and these.
--- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Cloud"
Sidelight: The poetic metaphor can be thought of as having two basic components: (1) what is meant, and (2) what is said. The thing meant is called the tenor, while the thing said, which embodies the analogy brought to the subject, is called the vehicle.
Sidelight: Both metaphors and similes are comparisons between things which are unlike, but a simile expresses the comparison directly, while a metaphor is an implied comparison that gains emphatic force by its connotative value.
Sidelight: A word or expression like "the leg of the table," which originally was a metaphor but which has now been assimilated into common usage, has lost its figurative value; thus, it is called a dead metaphor.
Sidelight: Frequently, the term metaphor, as opposed to a metaphor, is used to include all figures of speech, so the expression, "metaphorically speaking," refers to speaking figuratively rather than literally.
(See also Allegory, Conceit, Extended Metaphor, Mixed Metaphor,
Kenning, Personification, Synesthetic Metaphor)
(Compare Analogy, Metonymy, Symbol, Synecdoche)
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There is a haunting quality to Frank Kimbrough's solo piano record,
Published August 28, 2008, 11:14 pm, All About Jazz
Air . There is only one other solo piano record that has this overall effect on the listener, and that is Keith Jarrett's The Melody at Night, with You (ECM, 1998). Jarrett's program on that disc is very different—mainly ballads and standards—while Kimbrough's strikes out on a much bolder, adventurous course.
DVD connections uses In Bruges as its starting point for a tour round the movies' best tourism
Published August 25, 2008, 4:15 pm, Guardian Unlimited
Fancy another holiday? Can't afford it? Take an armchair tour with Philip Horne round the bright spots and dark alleyways of cinematic tourism. Our starting point: In Bruges
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Fri Aug 29
- Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems - ACM (1996): "HTTP and HTML are the Whoopee Cushion and Joy Buzzer of Internet protocols, only comprehensible as elaborate practical jokes" - a story of inevitability, not of perfection - engineered v growth - ignoring all the expert research to date, but where did that get us - cf. Nelson's warts and boogers - practical and theoretical wisdom (dear old Aristotle :)
Thu Aug 28
- A List Apart: Articles: Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer: The redesign of my law school?s website is not unlike the creation of a rhetorician?s memory dwelling. Built from the collective memory of our past and current students and faculty, the website is an abstraction?a map?of that memory, created to persuade prospective students to apply, current students to collaborate, and alumni to remain engaged with the school. The crucial difference is that the law school?s memory dwelling, unlike Quintilian?s, has more than one inhabitant. Our users, by continually adding to and altering the school?s collective memory, contribute to the production of the website?the abstraction of that memory. Instead of imposing an architecture upon users from above, we should use the flow of their interactions with the site and with each other to determine the form of this memory map.
- Love help: Funny metaphors used in high school essays - Help.com
- The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
- Metaphor Center
- Metaphor and Neuropsycholog y
- http://www.uor egon.edu/~uoph il/metaphor/an nbib.htm
- We're Only Human...: Brrrr. It's Lonely Out There
Wed Aug 27
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