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Metaphor: The Tree of Utah

Inscribed on the plaque are the words from Ode to Joy by Friedrich Schiller; also used as the chorus of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.


Aleksei Gastev

However, the use of metaphor, lyrical expressiveness, and repetitiveness of syntax undoubtedly make Gastev a true lyrical poet, with influences ranging from Verhaeren and Walt Whitman to the Russian Futurists.

Andrew Goatly

He is the author of The Language of Metaphors, and Critical Reading and Writing, published by Routledge, Washing the Brain: the hidden ideology of metaphor, published by John Benjamins, Explorations in Stylistics, published by Equinox and Meaning and Humour, published by Cambridge University Press.

Archangels Don't Play Pinball

The play uses the metaphor of a pinball machine—a new innovation in Italy at the time of and one of which Fo and his wife Franca Rame were fond— to convey mechanisation and conspicuous consumption.

Bob Gilmore

“Changing the metaphor: Ratio models of musical pitch in the work of Harry Partch, Ben Johnston, and James Tenney,” Perspectives of New Music 33, nos. 1 & 2 (Winter–Summer 1995): 458–503.

Body of Christ

Kim, Yung Suk. Christ's Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor 2008 ISBN 0-8006-6285-7

Cannon Fodder

Cannon fodder, a derogatory term for expendable soldiers, now often used as a metaphor

Cojones

The first English-language text to contain the word cojones as a metaphor for bravery is Ernest Hemingway's 1932 book on bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon.

Conceptual framework

For example, Isaiah Berlin used the metaphor of a “Fox” and a “Hedgehog” to make conceptual distinctions in how important philosophers and authors view the world.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum

: In Act 1, in an effort at light metaphor, the bourgeois character Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, misquotes the Latin phrase Nil nisi bonum and conflates it with the maxim De gustibus non est disputandum (“About taste there is no disputing”), which results in the mixed mortuary opinion: De gustibus aut bene, aut nihil (“Let nothing be said of taste, but what is good”).

Desktop

Desktop metaphor, especially the area behind the windows in a GUI using this metaphor

Domenico I Contarini

It encompasses and forms, as if a metaphor itself, its host village’s center, known, tellingly as Piazzola sul Brenta: built by descendants of no other than Domenico Contarini.

Don Cupitt

"Dover Beach", a 19th-century poem by Matthew Arnold which includes the metaphor of "the Sea of Faith"

Fourth wall

The metaphor of the fourth wall has been applied by literary critic David Barnett to The Harvard Lampoons parody of The Lord of the Rings when a character breaks the conventions of storytelling by referring to the text itself.

GRNappletree

The brand's website claims that the name GRNappletree is a "metaphor for life and the pursuit of inspiration," that represents the planting and harvesting of the seed of inspiration, it also alludes to Newton, Adam and Johnny Appleseed.

I Know How the River Feels

Mikel Toombs of the San Diego Union-Tribune described Diamond Rio's version negatively in his review of the album, saying that "There's nothing too embarrassing here, save the anything-for-a-metaphor 'I Know How the River Feels'.

Ik people

The film depicts the Ik in a positive light and concludes with members of the tribe staging a performance of A Christmas Carol as a metaphor of redemption.

Indra's net

While the original Hindu concept was developed and explained in various Dharmic philosophical texts of ancient India, the Buddhist version of the metaphor was later developed by the Mahayana school in the 3rd century scriptures of the Avatamsaka Sutra and later by the Huayan school between the 6th and 8th centuries.

Kitman

Czesław Miłosz in the The Captive Mind uses Ketman (a variation on Kitman) as a metaphor for understanding how intellectuals behaved under the totalitarian regimes in Postwar Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.

Lady D'Arbanville

"Lady D'Arbanville" has a madrigal sound, and was written about Stevens' former girlfriend, Patti D'Arbanville, metaphorically laying her to rest.

Lyubov Holota

Her most notable recent achievement was the publication of Episodic Memory, a groundbreaking novel which deploys Tulving's theory of memory as a metaphor for changes within Ukrainian society and shifts in the human psyche caused by globalisation.

Mark Pesce

He uses the folk story of the Stone Soup as a metaphor for this collaborative lesson in cooperation, especially amid scarcity.

Metaphor Computer Systems

David Liddle and Donald Massaro founded Metaphor in 1982 after leaving Xerox PARC.

My Iron Lung

The song's caustic, self-reflexive lyrics used the iron lung as a metaphor for the way "Creep" had both sustained the band's life and constrained them ("this is our new song / just like the last one / a total waste of time / my iron lung").

News to Us

The guitar on "Your Love Is (Love Song with Metaphor" was written and performed by Jonathan Coulton.

Northern Mockingbird

It also features in the title and central metaphor of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.

Pepe Soriano

A return to democracy in 1983 allowed Argentine artists to create works critical of the climate of abuses prevalent during the preceding dictatorship and Soriano was cast as the lead in Mercedes Frutos' 1984 film version of Adolfo Bioy Casares' Otra esperanza ("Another Hope"), a horror narrative set in a factory with secrets - a timely metaphor for much of the repression that had targeted industrial workers.

Physical law

The formula "law of nature" first appears as "a live metaphor" favored by Latin poets Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Manilius, in time gaining a firm theoretical presence in the prose treatises of Seneca and Pliny.

Principle of relativity

The special principle of relativity was first explicitly enunciated by Galileo Galilei in 1632 in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, using the metaphor of Galileo's ship.

Punishment Park

Although the film itself is fictional, many of the elements found within are metaphors of social and political events of the time, such as the trial of the Chicago Seven, the Kent State shootings, police brutality, and political polarisation.

Rändajad

The song can be taken as a metaphor for life, and Urban Symphony lead singer Sandra Nurmsalu points out that "we all are travellers".

Robert Tinney

In so doing, Tinney became one of the first artists to create a broad yet consistent artistic concept for the computing world, combining a specific artistic style with visual metaphor to showcase emerging trends in personal computing technology.

Rocket science in finance

"Rocket science" in finance is a metaphor for activity carried out by specialised information technology staff to provide executive managers with the detailed output from mathematical modeling programs to inform investment decisions.

Still Fantasy

The lyrics are strongly poetic, using Chrysanthemums as a metaphor for love, where the Chorus line "菊花殘 滿地傷 你的笑容已泛黃" (Chrysanthemums broken, scattered across the floor, your smile has faded) refers to the sorrow which arises after love ends and loneliness begins.

Sumbha and Nisumbha

In Shashi Tharoor's satirical novel The Great Indian Novel, the story of Sumbha and Nisumbha is used both as a warning against the dangers of seduction, and as a metaphor for the collapse of the relationship between the five Pandavas.

The Shakshuka System

The metaphor made during the film by the Israeli lawyer Ram Caspi, whom represented the Israel Corporation (controlled by the Ofer Brothers Group) in the negotiations over the acquisition of the government shares in Zim.

The film's name is a culinary metaphor which refers to the alleged deal made which resulted in Ofer Brothers Group acquisition of Zim, the national shipping company, for a seemingly very low price.

The Triumph of Time

The (male) speaker deplores the ruin of his life, and in tones at times reminiscent of Hamlet, craves oblivion, for which the sea serves as a constant metaphor.

The Yellow Wallpaper

Anglican Archbishop Peter Carnley used the story as a reference and a metaphor for the situation of women in the church in his sermon at the ordination of the first women priests in Australia on 7 March 1992 in St George's Cathedral, Perth.

This Modern World

I.H.O.T.F.M.-Man is an ardent defender of Adam Smith's invisible hand metaphor, and usually intervenes in situations where the purity of free market economics is in jeopardy.

V. C. Sreejan

It includes an essay on the Dhvani theory which argues that Dhvani is the same as metaphor in the broad sense of the term, an essay on the ideological underpinnings of some short stories and essays on T. Padmanabhan and Paul Zacharia.

Vampire: The Requiem

Ventrue are regal vampires who value power and dominion to the point of obsession, self-styled "lords of the night" they represent vampirism as a metaphor for maddening power, like Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Volkswagen Blues

While on the road, they discuss language, literature, American expansion, the Oregon Trail, etc., and their trip becomes a metaphor for the history of the French exploration of North America.

Von Neumann programming languages

Using a metaphor from John Backus, assignment statements in von Neumann languages split programming into two worlds.

What Is it Like to Be a Bat?

Subjective and objective concepts are two very different ideas and this is when the metaphor of bats comes into play.

Windowing

Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor

You Belong in Rock n' Roll

The band’s sound was somewhat more refined than on their debut album, influenced by Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley, and its use of a music-as-sex metaphor was a Bowie theme used on several tracks stretching right back to his glam days.


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