Sentences with phrase «poetic metaphor for»

The result is a construction whose fragility becomes a poetic metaphor for the human condition.

Two hours of film were condensed into three minutes, so that changes in the harshly beautiful landscape become a poetic metaphor for other kinds of changes, political and personal.

Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor for:... 1.

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If «Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor» then the actual event of eating of some fruit that was forbidden did not happen and thus there was no inherrited sin and thus no need for a ransom sacrafice from some savior which means the entire bible falls flat on its face.

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

I do, of course, leave room for the use of literary techniques such as metaphor, hyperbole, and poetic imagery, and also allow for minor errors to have crept in through the process of copying manuscripts by hand over the centuries.

It is to this problem that poetic metaphor speaks, for the poetic imagination makes connections undreamt of by our impoverished imaginations.

The pearl in question, alluded to in these constant poetic asides as the other white of the eye, is a metaphor for the glint of actual humanity in the very windows leading to the proverbial soul.

Dymott uses a photographer's ability to alter and manipulate images through the developing process as a metaphor for the tenuous grip Ruthie has on sanity, although there are times when the author's poetic reach exceeds the novel's action.

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Montage, as a metaphor for rearrangement, remembering, and erasing, is also the poetic vehicle of Jonas's film Mirage (1976), a work originally designed for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives» previous incarnation on Wooster Street.

Using the head as a metaphor for human experience, Dunning's work reflects a romantic sensibility that recalls the gothic literature of Mary Shelley or the poetic drama of Greek mythology.

In the visual metaphors of his videos, sculptures and drawings, Cass highlights the materiality of elements — through the intensity of colors, the texture of objects and the brutality of actions — in order to reach for a poetic, political and spiritual meaning, beyond what is obvious and visible in the work.

They are often also poetic, playful metaphors for the act of painting.

And though it follows the age - old tradition of using rugs as a means of communication and mediums for cultural record, there are various other metaphors that can be inferred by NEL's poetic creation: Carbon footprints being the cause of Global Warming, our comfort directly correlating with the discomfort of other species, [insert your inference here].