Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Gather s Clear Native Metaphor for Middle...
...mellow Memorial Hall, the first to speak was Poet Robert Frost. He read Longfellow's Flight Into Egypt, dwelt a while on his own favorite theme of "vocal imagination" -"Longfellow, you see," said Poet Frost, "used no figures of speech. Our poets today, a lot of them, are metaphor-crackers. They crack metaphors as other people crack jokes"-and concluded: "The idea that the only literature is the literature of the past is wrong. This meeting, the Institute, might well be the beginning of a renaissance." Sprightly Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay was present. She contributed no theorizing, merely...
However mixed the metaphor, Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, has taken arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing has not ended them. That royal monstrosity, the Hapsburg chin, apparently terrifies him not a bit: on the contrary, it incites him to retaliate with a jaw all his own. He sits tight in his French villa at Mentone and hurls investive against the border at the Spanish monarch...
...author of Sturly, in 126-pages, without slighting his ichthyology, not only constructs an intimate natural biography; he also evolves a crystalline artistic metaphor-simple, lofty, profound-for the entire theory of bio-chemical metabolism and the Life-stream. To the layman, whatever his philosophy, it will be an arresting book; a re-readable book...
...rest is more or less negligible. Mr. Edsall leaps to arms, and proclaims, in a curious metaphor, that the gods of the University are sleeping at the switch. Mr. Doughty writes four pages far above the common ken; Mr. Elliott contributes a story; and there are a few pallid lyrics. But, all in all, the number is a decided success; in fact, it nearly equals the almost forgotten days when the writer was an undergraduate of the College, when the Lampoon was very young, and the worthy paper in whose columns this review is printed lay, a charming infant, mewling...