Metaphor Archives

Metaphor

Like a ten-minute egg

by Raymond Chandler,

Active metaphors

by George Saunders,

Remembering Pearl Harbor–too often

by Robert B. Reich,

The Action of Metaphor

by Leonard Michaels,

Thrusting from the head of Picasso’s goat are bicycle handlebars. They don’t represent anything, but they are goat’s horns, as night is a black bat, metaphorically. Come into the garden…

The moral necessity of metaphor

by Cynthia Ozick,

Rooting history in a figure of speech

A nation of dreamers

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Readers

by Harper’s Staff,

A zoÃ¶logical wonder

by Harper’s Staff,

My garden

by Sheila M. Macdougall,

Not as minstrels do

by Francis Sterne Palmer,

A Virginia metaphor

by Harper’s Staff,

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Like a ten-minute egg

Active metaphors

Remembering Pearl Harbor–too often

The Action of Metaphor

The moral necessity of metaphor

A nation of dreamers

Readers

A zoÃ¶logical wonder

My garden

Not as minstrels do

A Virginia metaphor

August 1888

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