The finest quality natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries, and because of this, the word pearl has become a metaphor for something very rare, fine, admirable, and valuable.

A metaphor frequently employed to explain the meaning of makrifat involves pearl gathering.

The imagination, as it appears in many of Coleridge's and Wordsworth's works, including Kubla Khan, is discussed through the metaphor of water, and the use of the river in Kubla Khan is connected to the use of the stream in Wordsworth's The Prelude.

The zombie also appears as a metaphor in protest songs, symbolizing mindless adherence to authority, particularly in law enforcement and the armed forces.

A metaphor is also given — when the reflection of Brahman falls on māyā, Brahman appears as God ( the Supreme Lord ).

Child development and consciousness author Joseph Chilton Pearce remarked that revelation typically appears in symbolic form and “ in a single flash of insight .” He used the metaphor of lightning striking and suggests that the revelation is “ a result of a buildup of resonant potential .” Pearce compared it to the earth asking a question and the sky answering it.

This appears to be a metaphor for the practice of Zen.

An interesting metaphor is that when the " reflection " of the Cosmic Spirit falls upon the mirror of Maya (; the principle of illusion, which binds the mind ), it appears as the Supreme Lord.

Leonoudakis appears in the video as the visual metaphor " watching " Rockwell through the porthole of the front door.

However, the text also describes how such a kiss was a metaphor for the passing of gnosis, explaining the references to it elsewhere, making it clear that this isn't the homosexual relationship it appears to be.

The White-Smith case also appears to be the source of a legal metaphor used in US patent law relating to computer programs.

This is the first appearance of a fruit metaphor that will recur in Matthew 7: 16 and appears in other parts of the New Testament.

Anti appears in the tale The Contendings of Horus and Seth which describes the settlement of the inheritance of Osiris, seen as a metaphor for the conquest of Lower Egypt by Upper Egypt ( whose patron was Seth ), at the beginning of the Old Kingdom.

Collecting pieces of his theory from each of his interviews and destinations appears as a recurring metaphor.

* In " Caving & the Art of Subversion ", the first of the Mindscape books by Terence M Harrison, Lobbylud appears as a subversive metaphor for popular culture ( the novel involves a group of young ' revolutionaries ' whose mission is to destroy a new " Big Brother " type UK database system ).

As Bob Bows observes in his review of the 2008 Germinal Stage Denver production, whereas at first " ' The Birthday Party ' appears to be a straightforward story of a former working pianist now holed up in a decrepit boarding house ," in this play as in his other plays, " behind the surface symbolism ... in the silence between the characters and their words, Pinter opens the door to another world, cogent and familiar: the part we hide from ourselves "; ultimately, " Whether we take Goldberg and McCann to be the devil and his agent or simply their earthly emissaries, the puppeteers of the church-state apparatus, or some variation thereof, Pinter's metaphor of a bizarre party bookended by birth and death is a compelling take on this blink-of-an-eye we call life.

Biologist Gogarten suggests " the original metaphor of a tree no longer fits the data from recent genome research ".

Werner Hamacher has claimed that the earthquake's consequences extended into the vocabulary of philosophy, making the common metaphor of firm " grounding " for philosophers ' arguments shaky and uncertain: " Under the impression exerted by the Lisbon earthquake, which touched the European mind in one its more sensitive epochs, the metaphor of ground and tremor completely lost their apparent innocence ; they were no longer merely figures of speech " ( 263 ).

Cameron later clarified this to say he was impressed by one metaphor in her writings-of society being a caravan crossing a desert, where the people at the back can fall so far behind they are no longer part of the tribe.

Cadwallon's epithet, Lawhir, may possibly refer to him having longer than usual arms or might also be a metaphor, referring to the extent of his authority.

An example of an engineered meme is Godwin's Law, a meme which propagates on mail-lists, and which its author professes to have initiated to reduce spam on those lists ; one version is " When someone posts a metaphor about Nazis the thread is no longer useful.

Hymn 3. 2. 17 reads that dark ( metaphor for evil ) people are purified through Deva Surya: " To thee proceed the dark, the treasure-holders, both of them sanctified by Surya's bounty.

The style and format of the Cannibal Hymn are characteristic of the oral-recitational poetry of pharaonic Egypt, marked by allusive metaphor and the exploitation of wordplay and homophony in its verbal recreation of a butchery ritual.

By way of metaphor, Catholics and Orthodox alike also refer to the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Tabernacle in their devotions ( such as the Akathist Hymn or Catholic Litanies to Mary ), as she carried within her the body of Christ in her role as Theotokos.

A similar metaphor is to be found in the centuries-later Hymn to Delos of Callimachus, in which Delos, a swimming island, visits various places in the Aegean, including Parthenia, " Maiden's Isle " ( Samos ), where it is entertained by the nymphs of Mycalessos.

* Ezra Pound used it as metaphor in his poem " Portrait d ' une femme ":

If you think Terayama's poem uses a child's game to express in hyperbolic metaphor how, in retrospect, life is short, and nothing more, then this would indeed work as a senryū.

American poet laureate Robert Frost describes a pointless rock wall as a metaphor for the myopia of the culture-bound in his poem Mending Wall.

The poem also asserts that Bion was poisoned, which may or may not be a poetic metaphor.

Albatrosses have featured in poetry in the form of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which in turn gave rise to the usage of albatross as metaphor for a burden.

According to them, trobar means " inventing a trope ", the trope being a poem where the words are used with a meaning different from their common signification, i. e. metaphor and metonymy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the poem Adonais for John Keats, and uses the myth as an extended metaphor for Keats ' death.

In Allen Ginsberg's poem " Howl " ( 1955 ), Moloch is used as a metaphor for capitalism and industrial civilization, and for America, more specifically.

In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem.

An English expression with a similar meaning is " Roman holiday ", a metaphor taken from the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron, where a gladiator in Ancient Rome expects to be " butcher'd to make a Roman holiday " while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering.

Thanks to a poem by Coleridge, Xanadu became a metaphor for splendor and opulence.

The metaphor with which the poem ends is most likely an allusion to a passage in Thucydides ' account of the Peloponnesian War.

The same critic notes that " the poem upends our expectations of metaphor " and sees in this the central power of the poem.

This poem uses the metaphor of a tree, which changes and grows when it hears the music of Orpheus.

The poem itself is written in the traditional five-character quatrain style and is an extended metaphor that describes the relationship of two brothers and the ill-conceived notion of one harming the other over petty squabbling.

In a poem of about 1686, Tate alluded to James II as Aeneas, who is misled by the evil machinations of the Sorceress and her witches ( representing Roman Catholicism, a common metaphor at the time ) into abandoning Dido, who symbolizes the British people.

Vickrey argued that the poem is an allegory for the life of a sinner through the metaphor of “ the boat of the mind ,” a metaphor used “ to describe, through the imagery of a ship at sea, a person ’ s state of mind ” ( 251 ).

The comic's interpretation of the beheading-themed poem is as an ecological metaphor, a pact between man and nature:

Angelou uses the metaphor of a bird struggling to escape its cage, described in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, as a central image throughout her series of autobiographies.

In this poem, water is used as a metaphor to describe each human being on earth as a small drop of water within the Ocean of Rama.

One famous example of such a celebratory poem, ironically rejecting each proposed stock metaphor, is William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130: