Word: metaphor
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...think it means? Of course it's not any one thing, that wreck. An idea, an image like that works like a pebble thrown into water, rippling out into concentric circles. When you create an image with poetry, you can't do anything about it. Poetry is a metaphor, which doesn't mean that it isn't true or that it's a game. It's a very serious matter. In my own poetry, the personal becomes a metaphor for the public, and the public for the private. One thing reinforces another, and it's all a part...
SINCE ITS INVENTION by the Cubists early in this century, collage has served as a sharp metaphor for what the modern artist in any field must accomplish. In the twentieth century, to be an artist means to assemble available bits and pieces into a new order. The show of collages by Robert Motherwell now at the Museum of Fine Arts demonstrates the progress of the medium under the hands of one its most skillful practitioners since Picasso. Motherwell's collages, like those of the Cubists or of Kurt Schwitters, attempt to bring a new kind of immediate reality back into...
...plot and too many characters; they provide quantities of information far beyond anyone's desire to be informed. They are full of technical disquisitions of differential calculus, organic chemistry, the history of film, jazz and rock, dope and Freud, the Holy Grail, rockets, the Wizard of Oz -- all Pynchon metaphors for the twentieth century. It is not that he is groping for the one correct metaphor to one consistent reality. He is compiling as many metaphors as he can for as many realities as he sees...
...story carried the byline of Abel Green, Variety's editor for the past 40 years and the man most responsible for its whammo style and success. If Variety is the bible of show business with a slanguage all its own. Green, to mix up a Variety-style metaphor, was its King James. Virtually half the industry's vocabulary was respelled under his jocular hand. Samples: webs (TV networks), fest (festival), biopic (filmed biography), exex (executives), soap scripter (writer of soap operas). His most quoted headline was penned early on in his career: STICKS NIX HICK...
...Cooperstown, and there is an ambling love of detail for its own sake that recalls Melville's novel (which, by the way, Roth calls "five hundred pages of blubber"). The innuendoes of the game itself and the episodic richness of the narrative blot out attempts at conventional literary metaphor, as when some players visit a famous brothel peopled by wet-nurses, who sing lullabies for $2.50 a tune. These scenes don't work as "Literature", probably because they're so damn fun to read...