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poetic metaphor is a figure of speech in poetry where one thing is described in terms of something completely different, but with a deeper and more imaginative meaning. It helps to create vivid imagery and evokes emotions by comparing two unrelated things.
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- Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor for:... 1. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
- 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. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
- Speak to her again in the lilting, halting, innocent language of myth, of genteel dialogue, of piercing poetic metaphor — of Platonism. (firstthings.com)
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