The Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. |
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... metaphor— “ a candle which refuses to bud forth❞ — we say we have mixed metaphor , or catachresis , a figure which vigorously calls attention to itself . Shakespeare's use of metaphors from incompatible categories ap- plied to the same ...
... metaphor of waning and growing is very far from the metaphor of undiminished copy - printing . The two metaphors - organic and inorganic - exist in tension with each other , and the poem has obligations to enact each of them ...
... metaphor disappears , and the metaphorical appeal un- dergoes startling changes , as follows : A. Medicine ( salve ... metaphor . We have still to ask why it is these particular categories that appear , and why the remarkable breaks in ...