Of perfumed poems
Phone like fungi
Somehow this simile only works with the kind of phone Golding is describing, from the 1950s. It doesn't quite ring...
Sea-boot rough
Winter sea hoarseness and tight-swallowing soreness.
...‘My throat’s as rough as the inside of a sea-boot.’
Resurrection in barley
An astonishing image used by Seamus Heaney in his 'Requiem for the Croppies', as he explains here regarding the poem...
A visitation from a minor god
The past is a place which enriches me in almost all I do, and I love travelling there as much...
The masonry of verse
A brick-solid image to convey a sense of Anglo-Saxon verse, implying it is precisely constructed and built for the ages. ...
Like a horse’s eye
A lively boy's eye view of travelling in a boat and looking through a porthole. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was a...
Accordian-like adjustment
An obvious though unusual and simple metaphor for a flexible adaptation to things.
Source: Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams, p. 213
...
The coming of the simoom
This lovely word, which echoes its opposite, a monsoon, refers to a soughingly dry desert wind. Yet another superb simile...
Stormy tea trays
We’ve had some rotten weather recently, rain-grey clouds rolling over us like dismal tumbleweed, so this resonates.
The stream of feeling
Casaubon comes late to marriage and having decided upon it, dives headlong into the expected stream of feeling, only to...
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