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...year is 1931. A German passenger-freighter, the Vera (the name cruelly suggests "truth") sails from Vera Cruz, bound for Bremerhaven. It is. of course, a floating metaphor, no less effective because it is obvious: the "ship of the world, bound for eternity," as the author explains at the outset...
Misled by Metaphor. Jesus' roughhewn peasant tongue was Aramaic, a language akin to classical Hebrew. The peculiar quality of Aramaic forced Jesus to think in certain ways. Unlike Greek or Latin, it has few specific words to express philosophic concepts; most abstract ideas can only be suggested by concrete metaphors, which have often been misinterpreted in translation. When Jesus, for example, used the phrase from Mosaic law, "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," it did not mean-as untutored readers of the King James version might assume-that justice demands violent revenge for violent...
Roethke is a nature poet as well as a metaphysician, and the best of his poems celebrate the spiritual experience in a natural metaphor, as a sort of vegetation mystery. Cuttings is characteristic: This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks, Cut stems struggling to put down feet, What saint strained so much, Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life? I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small waters seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last...
...with eyes is an old idea, yet it can be made appealing merely by casting it in new words, Borges noted. He cited as an example the wish of a lover to be the night, so that he could "watch over his mistress as she slept"--with the basic metaphor only implied by the words...
Ionesco builds to a simple, visual metaphor. Sometimes he becomes too involved in his blueprint and loses sight of the overall structure (as in The New Tenant). The same is true of Rhinoceros, but the brilliance of the plan itself is staggering. In The Chairs, finally, production outline, technique, and final product are equally brilliant...