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Even as the poem mourns Lincoln, there is a sense of triumph that the ship of state has completed its journey. [76] Whitman encapsulates grief over Lincoln's death in one individual, the narrator of the poem. [77] Cohen argues that the metaphor serves to "mask the violence of the Civil War" and project "that concealment onto the exulting crowds".
Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work.
The poem is a "working out of the various tensions—set up by whatever means-by propositions, metaphors, symbols". [ 4 ] : 207 It achieves a resolution through this working out of tensions, not necessarily a logical resolution but a satisfactory unification of different "attitudes", or dispositions towards experience.
Critics examining metaphor have in recent years also started to examine metaphor in visual and electronic media. For example, metaphors can be found in rhetorical presidential television ads. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan’s campaign sponsored a commercial showing a grizzly bear as posing a potentially large threat to the United States.
With an inexact metaphor, however, a metaphier might have associated attributes or nuances – its paraphiers – that enrich the metaphor because they "project back" to the metaphrand, potentially creating new ideas – the paraphrands – associated thereafter with the metaphrand or even leading to a new metaphor. For example, in the metaphor ...
Metaphor is also used in abundance in “Ars Poetica;” lines 9-16 describe a poem by implication to universality, line 12 compares night to an object that can capture. Anaphora, or refrain, is also used throughout the poem- the phrase “a poem should be” is repeated 5 times.
A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g.,
Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...