Comments on English Poetic Metaphors ABSTRACT The painters keep the scenery on the drawing board via pigment while the poets create the feeling of grace and depth via metaphors. Metaphor is a commonly-used figure of speech both in English and Chinese poems. With metaphor‚ poems become vivid‚ colourful‚ artistic and moving. The use of metaphors in English poems shows the nature and culture factors are quite influential in literature works. Nowadays‚ metaphor is more and more being concerned
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The Conceptualization of 17th Century Inferiority in Conceptual Metaphors Our perception of the social system‚ morality and human relations is an influential factor on how human´s mentally and linguistically express themselves through figurative speech. By examining human´s tendency to personify abstract entities with concrete structures‚ increases our understanding of how the human lexicon associates and maps multiple source domains with their targets. As each individual´s experiences and background
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begin with‚ George Wilson seems to find himself being held hostage by his awful past continuously throughout the novel. Firstly with his inability to let go of his wife Myrtle who clearly no longer has love for him. This causes him to do outrageous things for example he tells Michaelis that “I’ve got my wife locked up in there”(Fitzgerald 143). He takes precautions by locking Myrtle up in the bedroom in the event that she may escape and leave him. This clearly shows that Wilson is so attached to
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Has the metaphor of ‘learning journey’ any value in the analysis of research data on access‚ retention and ‘drop-out’ in higher education? Paul Armstrong‚ Researcher‚ RANLHE Project Since the earliest times the act of travelling‚ of proceeding from one place to another‚ has been seen as a natural metaphor for learning‚ for the acquisition of experience and knowledge. (Bishop C. Hunt Jr.‚ ‘Travel Metaphors and the Problem of Knowledge’‚ Modern Language Studies‚ vol. 6‚ no. 1‚ Spring‚ 1976‚ p.44) What’s
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When first reading “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath‚ the reader may find him or herself confused‚ or at least unsure of the meaning of this poem. The poem uses numerous images that‚ at first glance‚ don’t seem to have anything in common. However‚ the careful reader (or the luck one) will see the connection: all of these have something to do with round‚ big objects. If the reader takes into the account the “nine” syllables‚ symbolising nine months‚ and the imagery that relates to bloatedness and roundness
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Kerr Inkson places a reliance on metaphor to enhance our understanding of careers. Critically assess this reliance in relation to the use of 4 metaphors of careers provided: career as actions‚ roles‚ relationships and (a) resource. In the early 21st century‚ career is a common term used to describe a pattern of work experience that occurs throughout a person’s lifetime (Arnold‚ 1997). This definition explains that a person has only one career but may have several occupations and a variety of
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INTRODUCTION Since 1952 a subsidiary of British Company for chemical manufacturer was established in Ghana‚ named Wilson Chemical (Ghana) Ltd. There were three reasons for its success: 1. Fertilizer as the primary product in an agricultural based economy 2. The company employed many natives in top positions 3. Appointed a native Ghanaian graduated from Oxford‚ Joseph Okono‚ as the president of Wilson Chemical (Ghana) Ltd. Under Mr. Okono’s management‚ the company achieved a great success in sales and
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Although our historical memory remembers our 28th President Woodrow Wilson as the great man who got us through World War 1‚ or the man who founded the League of Nations‚ it likely fails to remind us of who he truly was on the inside. His racist views and his superiority complex to blacks all fail to resurface from our minds. It’s precisely because of the fact that we “heroize” him as being one of our greatest Presidents‚ and we don’t want to see him any other way. Even though he does have another
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The machine metaphor is defined as an organization that operates in a mechanistic-like manner (Morgan 12). These organizations are very centralized and structured. The tasks performed are very monotonous and predictable‚ and workers become very separated from their work‚ similar to how a robot would operate. The employees are viewed by the organization as inanimate and replaceable. In a machine‚ each unit is independent and necessary to create a smooth operation of the whole machine
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson served as the 28th president of the United States. Wilson was born on December 28th‚ 1856 in Staunton‚ Virginia and died February 3rd‚ 1924 in Washington‚ D.C. Wilson was born to Jessie Janet Wilson and Joseph Ruggles Wilson. Wilson grew up with older sister Annie E. Wilson Howe and younger brother Joseph Ruggles Wilson‚ Jr. Wilson and his family had moved to Augusta‚ Georgia when he was just over a year old. In his early teenage years‚ Wilson and his family moved to Columbia
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