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...listening to it as a joke, and then I fell in love.”She found connections between the metaphysical poetry she loved and the crooning she hated. In country music, she saw the same mastery of conceit—the unification of dissimilar ideas in an extended metaphor??that attracted her to the English Renaissance poet John Donne. Just as Donne created an elaborate metaphor likening the two feet of a compass to distant lovers, a country music songwriter compared a love affair to a trial and execution. She would later become the only black woman...
...probably to another House to visit the other people they wanted to live with had they been given any type of choice. As a result, while the Houses appear to be lovely melting pots of diverse cultures, ideologies, and activities, the “patchwork quilt” metaphor??this time in reference to blocking groups—may actually be more accurate; while a myriad of different types of people are represented and are placed close to one another in the Houses, people remain largely self-contained entities that escape each other’s influence...
...anti-Semitism.” The technical term in rhetoric for such a change in the meaning of a word is catachresis: “the application of a term to a thing which it does not properly denote or the perversion of a trope or metaphor?? (Oxford English Dictionary).The catachresis of anti-Semitism at Harvard begins with President Summers’ 2002 denunciation of colleagues who signed an anti-Israel divestment petition as being, basically, anti-Semites. Certainly the anti-Israel divestment movement was and remains obnoxious, but not for the reasons the Summers partisans suppose...
...session, a graduate student posed a question to him about “reality as it really is”—and why he, along with other Indian filmmakers, failed to represent it. This drew a bemused chuckle from Benegal, who answered briefly “allusion, metaphor??all these things are to be used, surely. There has to be a place for imagination...
...session, a graduate student posed a question to him about “reality as it really is”—and why he, along with other Indian filmmakers, failed to represent it. This drew a bemused chuckle from Benegal, who answered briefly “allusion, metaphor??all these things are to be used, surely. There has to be a place for imagination...