Word: metaphor
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...incipient writer remembers some advice given him by a newspaper editor for whom he worked during high school. "This piece sounds like you have been writing from notes. Chew everything up and spit it out in one stream" he said. If the metaphor is a bit inelegant the advice is sound, and it is not an accident that the editor was one of Van Doren's most devoted and fondly remembered students at Columbia...
...Poet at Second Base" is not so esoteric, but it is difficult to decide whether to take Dawson's far-fetched metaphor seriously...
...poems by Byrd appear in the magazine. In the first, which is untitled, he says, "Man attempts too many explanations." The line suggests the proper way to approach the poem: it should be felt. The basis of the poem is experience, not contrived metaphor; Byrd writes simply but powerfully...
...abandoned child who became successively a thief, a prostitute, a convict, and the most ferociously brilliant poet now at work in the French theater of the absurd. In The Balcony, a drama that resembles both a burlesque show and a Black Mass. Genet expounds his fantasies in a monstrous metaphor: the world is a vast brothel operated by an infernal, supernal, eternal Madam who sells her customers illusions in return for the surrender of their masculinity...
...China's new tone made the squabble for supremacy in the Communist world sound all but irreconcilable. "If it is a case of masters wielding clubs over the heads of servants, calling for unity, then what is actually meant is a split," declared Red Flag. Switching to another metaphor, Peking intoned ominously that "now there are two watches" by which Communists can tell the time. "Which is to be the master watch...