Or, equally often, a concretistic-seeming, particularistic-seeming statement may consist, with its mundane exterior, in a form of poetry -- may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression: a metaphor, a smile, an allegory, or some other symbolic mode of speaking.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

* Chapters 1-2 ; Account of Hosea's marriage with Gomer biographically which is a metaphor for the relationship with Yahweh and Israel.

According to Kirsten Abbott, feminist interpretation regards the story of Hosea and his relations with his wife Gomer as a metaphor for the conflict between a Covenant Theology ( Israel violating the covenant relationship with YHWH ) and a Creation Theology ( YHWH will undo the fertility of the earth in response to Israel following other fertility gods ).

Shocked, Macbeth uses words appropriate to the metaphor of usurpation, describing Banquo as " crowned " with wounds.

The metaphor compares the promise of the global socialist movement before May 1968 ( the grin ) with its actual presence in the world after May 1968 ( the cat ).

The use of cyberspace as a metaphor has had its limits, however, especially in areas where the metaphor becomes confused with physical infrastructure.

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

The conception of ordination brought with it largely unspoken parallels with the Anglican and Catholic priesthood, but the overriding metaphor in James's handbook was that of a father's relation to his children.

Adam Smith described this behavior applied to competitive markets with the metaphor of an invisible hand urging society towards prosperity.

It is also difficult to accurately translate original alchemy texts, especially medieval Chinese texts which employ metaphor to describe unexplained phenomena, into contemporary scientific language with its rigidly defined terminology.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

Lovecraft's style has often been criticised by unsympathetic critics, yet scholars such as S. T. Joshi have shown that Lovecraft consciously utilised a variety of literary devices to form a unique style of his own-these include conscious archaism, prose-poetic techniques combined with essay-form techniques, alliteration, anaphora, crescendo, transferred epithet, metaphor, symbolism and colloquialism.

Claudius's high status is reinforced by using the royal first person plural (" we " or " us "), and anaphora mixed with metaphor to resonate with Greek political speeches.

Part of the war motif could be a metaphor for the poet in a competitive struggle with the reader in order to push his own vision and ideas upon his audience.

But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.

* A mixed metaphor is one that leaps from one identification to a second identification inconsistent with the first.

Professional divers use such a calculation only as a rough guide to give new divers a metaphor, comparing a situation they may be more familiar with.

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

The ( male ) speaker deplores the ruin of his life, and in tones at times reminiscent of Hamlet, craves oblivion, for which the sea serves as a constant metaphor.

Using the " lock and key " metaphor, the antigen itself can be seen as a string of keys-any epitope being a " key "-each of which can match a different lock.

The metaphor of flesh being torn illustrates the length to which the ruling classes and socialites would go to further increase their wealth.

"... One major contribution of AI and cognitive science to psychology has been the information processing model of human thinking in which the metaphor of brain-as-computer is taken quite literally.

* H. G. Wells wrote The Croquet Player, which uses croquet as a metaphor for the way in which man confronts the very problem of his own existence.

Note that the so-called Kinshasa Highway is not a physical road but a metaphor applied to the route by which AIDS is believed to have been spread east through Uganda and Kenya and neighbouring countries by truck drivers from the Congo.

Two of the most popular of the period were of Pomona ( goddess of orchards ) as a metaphor for Agriculture, and Diana, representing Commerce, which is a perpetual hunt for advantage and profits.

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The organic metaphor is thus very appropriate: biological organisms seem to have emergent properties which cannot be found anywhere in their individual parts.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

Snorri draws the line at mixed metaphor, which he terms nykrat “ made monstrous ” ( Snorri Sturluson: Háttatal 6 ), and his nephew called the practice löstr “ a fault ” ( Óláfr hvítaskáld: Third Grammatical Treatise 80 ).

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

The metaphor of a pearl appears in the longer Hymn of the Pearl, a poem respected for its high literary quality, and use of layered theological metaphor, found within one of the texts of Gnosticism.

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 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: