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...

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...

One of the style elements that Shelley used often in his poetry was imagery. For example, in “Alastor” there is a lot of imagery, particularly nature imagery that helps to create the background and also shows the perspective from which the narrator views nature. The...

J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla introduces us to the world of Laura, a shy young woman raised in the southern Austrian state of Styria. Through the events of the novella Laura is entranced by a striking young female vampire by the name of Carmilla (also...