O dandelion sun!
A big round dandelion arching the sky - what a deep yellow sun this is, and I like the 'light-smitten...
The backward bin
John Keats' letters are full of wry humour and playfulness, interwoven with a rage to live and frustration and despair...
As expressionless as …
Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy is packed with original metaphor and simile. In Titus Groan, the first book, I noted two...
Top soil on a veranda
Mia Couto’s metaphors are wonderful. This one conveys the dead weight appearance of a body slumped unconscious.
‘It certainly was...
Battering-ram power
Nancy is a character with battering-ram energy in all she does, exuberantly seeking opportunities to go to ‘war’ with her...
All-encompassing flow
The cadence of this metaphor has the abundance and freshness of clear, flowing water. It likens Virgil, whom Dante views...
Borne on the evening breeze
In the midst of winter, on a drab-draped day, the memory of flower-garden odour borne on an evening breeze is...
Hangover face
Wonderful way to describe the face of a hungover man, though no doubt he felt every bit as bad as...
Vomited out like a Jonah
The first of several descriptions of this boy being ejected from childhood innocence and security by his...
Relief of the gods
A gratitude, therefore, that the whole race or culture has not been wiped out even if the city has been...
Technique as dousing
In discussing the technique of writing, Seamus Heaney conjures a water diviner as a metaphor. At first glance far-fetched, as...
Of merry audacious jays
Two fine metaphors here, describing the nature and the cry of jays, though the first of these is by now...
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