Word: metaphorizes
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...Nephew seems to have been conceived--quite intentionally--in realistic, conventional terms, perhaps in an effort to mirror its platitudinous theme: that people can eventually come to understand one another. Here the uncommunicative world Purdy created in Malcolm, half-seen, half-dreamt, is no longer considered the true metaphor of the human condition...
...issue. Jeremy Johnston's poem, the first of these, is the only excellent piece in the entire issue: Mr. Johnston uses the ballad form, which he handles so adroitly, to express something darker than the fancies of his earlier work. His poem is an extended metaphor, illustrating the sophisticated command of language and ironic use of rhyme which has previously engaged the attention of this reviewer. It is a great pleasure to see someone write about a highly personal subject with detachment, eschewing the offensive gurgle which so many Cambridge writers mistake for the plainsong of genius...
Opening nights of CRIMSON competitions are rather like Mad Hatter tea parties, except, of course, that yards and yards of AP ticker substitute for tea and goodies. Actually, that's a bad metaphor, because it doesn't really describe the comforting and comfortable kind of beery chaos which reigns in the newsroom...
...probably the longest, certainly the most intensely sustained metaphor in modern fiction, Greene has made the leper a symbol of modern man, and of the "long disease" of modern life. It is the leper's fate to die piecemeal: limbs, members, features deaden and fall from the still living body. But it is not on these horrors of pathology that Greene's imagination centers. It is the quiet, and some would say merciful, side effect of leprosy-the disappearance of sensation, of the power to feel even pain-which haunts Greene, and which he makes the basis...
Among the offerings which might (with some in accuracy) be termed entirely serious, John C. Holden's Memento Mori is the most substantial. Despite a not entirely satisfactory central metaphor ("My life's a sheet of paber filled with holes./People, punched away by antic death...") and some few rough spots, Memento Mori, which won the Hatch Prize this year, is a fine piece. Mr. Holden succeeds in encasing a particularly unwieldly sentiment in a tight and carefully plotted structure. The skillful shifting of the rhyme scheme, and its complete abandonment at one point, reinforce the progression of Mr. Holden...