Word: metaphorizes
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...magnanimity of the CRIMSON is proved by the presence of this article in its columns. Indeed there is an air of playful fisticuffs about the Monthly's assault that is not likely to arouse resentment. So that the CRIMSON can at least adopt a flattering metaphor, and admit the resemblance of its critics "to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them...
...temptations of 'recherche' work and the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding poets." Ten minutes of hard meditation on these words will help their writer to avoid "the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding" critics, if one may adapt some of his superabundant metaphor. Moreover, let him forswear for a year the word "muse...
...rest of the contents, the verse is better than the prose. "The Dream-Palace," by J. Hinckley '06, has a light and delicate fancy and no little beauty of expression: though here and there invention flags, and metaphor and word are drummed up at the exigencies of the rhyme. "Chanson," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07, has the charm of simplicity. The stories in the number are poor. "The Play" is an elaborately constructed rack whereon are hung a few, sometimes effective jokes. "The Adventure of the Young man and the Spasmodic Lady" and "The Curious History of a Selfish...
...poem, "Wanderlust," signed F. M. is imaginative and euphonious, rather like Kipling in its rythm but without Kipling's boldness of metaphor and roughness of style...
...aims directly at making himself perfect gets in his own way. Right here the law of indirectness begins to act. Almost all the truth comes to us indirectly. Eloquence of the highest sort expresses itself in figures of speech and poetry, especially, naturally clothes itself in metaphor. So it is with the man who seeks perfection. His seeking must be along an indirect line or it becomes mere selfishness...