Gasping for freedom
The departure of the one kind person in the orphanage where she has spent more than half her young life,...
A quivering of shattered pinions
What a potent, heart-rending image of longing, echoing the Spanish word for lame or broken-winged, aliquebrado. See an earlier image...
An awakened influence
Charlotte Bronte describes the spirit of writing when it flows. This happens to me occasionally, and I've noticed you can't...
Light-footed running
One of the qualities Rochester loves and admires in Jane is her uprightness. While willing to help him in any...
Of gander and falcon
A surprising juxtaposition of birds to convey a contrast.
'... the contrast could not be much greater between a sleek...
Widest-winged condor
This novel being set in England, I liked this evocation of a splendid bird from the other side of the...
Busy busy busy
One of the inconsequential but socially better placed characters Jane has to endure, at least until she finds her heart's...
Low-gliding and pale-beaming
We are early enough in the year for the sun to still be 'low-gliding' in the sky and 'pale-beaming' in...
Of billows and surges
A finely tumultuous image for turbulent and mixed emotions.
'Till morning dawned I was tossed on the buoyant but unquiet...
The fore- and after-taste of vengeance
A heady metaphor for the taste of vengeance, followed by the bitter aftertaste. It reminds me of a quotation by...
Death-white realms
A small, lonely, oppressed orphan reading A History of British Birds in search of solace and stimulus and finding instead bleak...
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