Sleep and scimitars
What a keen metaphor for the bright light piercing of shut-eye night.
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Images of war
Again, reducing human carnage to an image of barbecue leftovers.
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As lively as …
You can imagine the spark lighting up a prim Victorian drawing room, when the sexes are brought together within a...
Wind like liquid glass
An astonishingly limpid description of the clarity a wind pours over a landscape.
'For two days and two nights the...
Dancing leaves
They do spin and pirouette in a gusty autumn breeze, and I liked this reference to a rag blown in...
A pretty primrose
Such an original way to convey heart-stopping loveliness, physical that is. One of the twists of the story is that...
As quiet as…
Christopher Logue’s vivid, muscular version of some episodes in the Iliad abounds with striking metaphors – I noted about 60...
As miraculous and consoling as…
I wish you some miraculous and consoling intimations that feel like Helen's hand laid across your brow.
'... an intimation...
The smiling surf
You can see the white froth of the waves on a rough northern shore, looking like a white grin along...
Ignoring your foes
You can see Mr Flay side-stepping the presence of his mortal foe, Swelter, as one side-steps other unpleasantness in one's...
Of merry audacious jays
Two fine metaphors here, describing the nature and the cry of jays, though the first of these is by now...
Silent as …
Another richly original simile for silence, here attributed to the noiseless movement of a rolling mist. See another silent simile...
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