Free to go
Please, if you read and enjoy this vivid metaphor, do me the favour of using it at least once so...
Baby as bubble
Downright Shakespearean this phrase: pregnancy as belly-bubble on a dame. The implication being I Was Already Doing ABC when you...
The wave foreseen
A magnificent image of a proud and then crashing wave, thundering up a shaken coast, and used to signify the...
As quiet as…
Christopher Logue’s vivid, muscular version of some episodes in the Iliad abounds with striking metaphors – I noted about 60...
Shields like clinkered hulls
A marvelous description of the helots’ tightly held, flexible and impregnable shield wall, like the scales of a fish, or...
Ajax and Alamein
Logue’s rendering of Homer is powerful because he makes it immediate, either by transporting you through sheer force of description...
Images of war
Again, reducing human carnage to an image of barbecue leftovers.
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Cloud-shadowing mountains
What a landscape to overcome if you want to reach Pythia – mountains shadowed by clouds and deep sea troughs.
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Plucking chickens in Australia
One of the inventive elements of Logue’s metaphors is the way he mixes up eras, blithely planting a country called...
Impartial as…
A beautiful simile for impartiality, like a sunbeam, shining equally on all that fall within its light. Like many of...
The icy scabs of the earth
A depiction of the north and south ice caps, as 'icy scabs at either end of the earth'. And then...
That’s no way to speak to God
Here we have Helen’s cuckolded husband Menalaus screaming at God in the most colourful terms. I like the idea of...
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