Essays on Metaphor

The tick, a parasite, has only one function, the one of survival. Therefore, it is with Grenouille. From day one, his only instinct has been to survive and, like a tick, his desire causes death simply by being. Death follows Grenouille and Süskind writes that...

The investigation of the nature and formal parts of metaphors come across a wide range of discourses and specific circumstances. Studies have concentrated essentially on the verbal part of metaphors. Nonetheless, there are scholars, for example, Lakkoff and Johnson (1980) who stated that ‘allegory is...

The focus of this article is to analyze the themes of ‘Social Satire’, ‘Representational Metaphor’ and ‘Hope’ as reflected in Sayeed Ahmad’s Survival. Keeping the narrative of the main folktale, the story line of Survival is developed, but because of Ahmad’s craft, we get a...

“The standard definition for a metaphor explains it as a figure of speech that applies a word or a phrase to an object or action to which that word or phrase is not literally applicable”. ‘The curtain of night fell upon us. ’ In this...

One of the most common metaphors we hear or often use is that “a life is a roller coaster”. Life is a rollercoaster because it continues to go up and down, very rarely do people go through it alone, and sometimes one must wait a...

In Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, Rochester is portrayed as the metaphorical coloniser, who dominates the women he comes into contact with, exploiting and utilising them like his colonised possessions. To explore this process, the voodoo figure of the zombi is used, a traumatised victim...

The poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman starts off with a stanza reminiscing the celebrations of the athlete’s achievements. The reader then realizes that the poem is in reality about the burial of the young runner. The poem describes how youth is...

Guilt is a powerful concept. When an individual commits something they know is morally wrong, a heavy feeling settles in their chest, all-consuming and at times, unbearable. They carry that guilt for a long time, looking for any and every way to rid themselves from...

The allegory in the Lord of the Flies is reflective of its author William Golding’s experiences. After a failed attempt at an author during childhood, Golding took to bullying as an outlet and said that he enjoyed hurting other people. Though he failed as an...

Emily Dickinson became well-known all over the world after her death. Thanks to her sister, the rest of Dickinson’s poems were published in 1890. Mabel Loomis Todd edited contents of Dickinson’s poems. Among Emily Dickinson’s 1,775 poems, only twenty-four of them are titled. Twenty-one poems...