Word: metaphorical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...concludes the third and final section of this poem with a reiteration of this message, but in language characterized by a hyper-emotional, almost agonized tone. With metaphor based on the line "Every scream of fear is a white needle freezing the eyes," she writes...
...author had not decided to tie his story to mythology, this could have been enough. In fact more than enough; the psoriasis might easily have been left out. As things stand, Updike's enormous, unbalanced metaphor eventually topples off the edge of audacity into preciousness...