Word: metaphor
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...hear him saying, we know what words are. They describe things. But why shovel them into the ditch of what each one means, into the hoary groove of usage and association. Let the words exist as white ladders covered with water. Why be content with little sparks from occasional metaphor and simile when there is a bonfire to be built of twisted images and grammar. Dylan has applied the lessons of LSD, light shows and electronic music to smash the old patterns of reaction set by the old rules...
...that, says Associate Curator Edward Fry, 32, who spent two years and traveled to 30 countries in preparation for it, is only a sign of the times. Sculpture, he believes, is "involved with specific objects, with facts," while painting "almost always maintains some quality of illusion, reference or metaphor." Says Fry: "The facts of sculpture correspond to the post-meta physical moment...
Stoppard has chosen to use Hamlet as a metaphor for existence. Through his fable he marches good Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern blindfolded. They know little of their roles and less of themselves. In fear and trembling, they jolly their way to their doom. Every man does the same, Stoppard implies, for no man can divine the purpose of existence except to know that life is uncertain and death is sure...
...slave from day to day. He must relate the story through the eyes of the rebellious slave, thereby intruding on the consciousness of a black man. But the book does not purport to provide a deep analysis of the slave mind, nor does it intend to present a metaphor for Negro rioters in 1967. Styron is simply creating a work of art which portrays the psychological effects of slavery...
Unfortunately, like his targets, Bunuel has aged poorly. His images no longer shock, his attacks, in the era of black humor, seem peculiarly tame and tepid. Manifestly, he intended Angel to fly on several levels. It could be a metaphor of proliferating fascism, as in Camus' The Plague. Or it could be a restatement of the theme of No Exit, Sartre's trapped-in-a-room drama: hell is other people...