Word: metaphorizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacDonald has written a fairly competent extended metaphor comparing the sea to a woman. He rather successfully captures both the rise and fall of the swells and their dark, light-drowing power. There is a strong suggestion of death wish and a good bit of alliteration. One line--"While limbs loll out long like a lover"--seems to have little meaning within the context of the poem, but the image is satisfying, and it trips off the tongue nicely. Fred Seidel's poem about death is filled with images. It is not as obscure as it might have been...
...which asserts itself primarily in the straight political speeches with quips like: "The Republicans have been in office for twenty months--or long enough to elect Maine's first Democratic governor in twenty years." There is also Mr. Stevenson's less famous but equally impressive facility with the serious metaphor, which allows him to describe the sub-standard, depressed areas of the American economy as "stagnant pools into which the tide of prosperity has failed to flow...
...combination of humor and tragedy. The humor is more subdued now, however, and the terrible urgency that marked Juno and the Paycock has given way to a more somber and reflective atmosphere. As part of the change in tone, O'Casey adopts a prose style that is rich in metaphor and, at times, very close to poetry. The plot, in contrast, is extremely simple, telling the story of a young railroad worker with artistic inclina-who leaves his ambitions and the girl who loves him to become a leader in the strike...
...scrim that sets the time at eternity, the place at everywhere. The forestage is filled with what looks like a mighty cubistic boulder on which Joan sits pale and still, like a piteous Prometheus in the midst of her tormentors. The tableau breaks, and the trial, which is the metaphor the action moves in, takes its course. In a matter of moments it is clear that the London fiasco is not to be repeated by Producer Kermit Bloomgarden. For that production Christopher Fry had done a literal translation from the French. For this one Lillian Hellman has cut 43 pages...
...Nuts." After that testimonial, reporters asked if the President seemed eager to get back to work. Said Infantryman Monty, mixing a cavalry metaphor: "He's biting the curb. I think he's eager to resume the reins." Then reporters asked Press Secretary Hagerty to comment on recurring suggestions that the President might resign if he decides not to run again. Said Hagerty: "You can take it in either of two words, or you can take it in one: no or nuts. Does that answer that one?" Cracked Monty: "That's what you call a fast ball...