Word: metaphoric
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...Happiness Is A Warm Gun," Lennon was painting the world in despairing terms, and one of the central metaphors he used in that song was his guilt at the way he had treated his ex-wife Cynthia. He ended up that song advocating suicide, smack and nihilism. This time around Lennon is different, more at peace with himself and the world and advocating the same for everybody. Again the metaphor of his relationship with his ex-wife recurs and the difference in his handling of it shows exactly how he has changed. Thus, on side two of Abbey Road, which...
...certain internal logic to the development from control-your-own-life politics to working-class-oriented politics. Students sensed the connection between their spiritual woes and the material woes of the oppressed workers. And if at first the idea of a Ruling Class was only a helpful metaphor, it began to make more sense as the War got worse and inflation made real wages decline every year...
...crown of glittering and priceless jewels," was Arthur Houghton Jr.'s metaphor. The president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was describing a gift that is soon to become part of the Met's permanent exhibits: the art collection of the late Robert Lehman, the investment banker who died in August. It was quite a birthday gift for the museum's 100th anniversary. The value of the greatest bequest in the Metropolitan's history has been estimated to be $100 million, but it is probably much higher; many of the nearly...
...threatening angles of girders and consumed by the relentless forward movement of concrete progress. More explicitly, the natural world for Baillie is a world in which light plays freely; in man's world light is confined refracted, or invented (for instance, the use of lighted store interiors as a metaphor for death in Mass for the Sioux Dead ). Baillie's most frequent subject is the interaction between a poetic Nature and an ugly modernity, producing a restriction on the play of light...
...hostile each night around the campfire, where a lot of authentic marijuana dialogue goes on. Like Western heroes, they are isolated in travel from their natural environment; their trail lies on the landscaps, but is never one with it: they are always just passing through. It's a good metaphor for the expatriate sensibility that has grown up among young people, a new landlessness, an acute sense of dispossession. Wyatt wears a leather jacket with an American flag stitched on the back: Billy calls him Captain American. The land of the free is not only locked in convulsion now that...