The Use of Metaphors

SanTianna Simmons ENG 1102 25 April 2013 A metaphor is where you show how two uncorrelated things be similar. For example by ordaining Love is a roller-coaster. A key aspect of a metaphor is use a circumstantial transference of a word into al nigh other context. The human mind creates comparisons surrounded by different things. The best authors use metaphors. Like poetry, a metaphor pass on express a thousand different meanings whole at once, allowing the writer to convey lots more content than they could do otherwise.More than playing h wholenessnessst word games, the use of metaphors in your writing can elevate your stories to a place next to the largeest authors in the world. There argon more an(prenominal) a nonher(prenominal) kinds of metaphors Allegory, catechesis, parables, ext wipe placeed metaphors, etc. An extended metaphor establishes a subject and accordingly extends it further, as in this repeat from Shakespeargon All the worlds a stage, And all the h ands and women merely players They throw off their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. Brian Doyle, Author of Joyas Valdoras, uses the humbird metaphor to support his story. The story starts mop up by grabbing the readers attention with a fact. The fact is actually arouse. Unless you be someone that studies animals, you would have no idea that a hummingbirds heart is the size of a pencil, or that it beats ten multiplication per second. After I read the first moveence, I was instantly interested to see what more the author had to say. He got the name, Joyas Valdoras, from a reference by early Spanish redresstlers. It means flying jewels.They called these creatures flying jewels because they had neer seen anything similar them on struggleds. They would fly around quickly all day, reproducing and collecting nectar. Doyle then goes on to play more facts close to hummingbirds and their incredible hearts. Hummingbi rds can fly up to 500 miles without stopping to rest, however they can circumvent burned out. Whenever humming birds get burned out, it can become fatal. Although Doyles allusion to hummingbirds was interesting, I come int think he meant for his story to obviously be a story to the highest degree humming birds.He excessively goes on to spill the beans about the blue whale, an animal having the largest heart in the world. He gives us interesting facts about that animal likewise, unless this still does not justify wherefore he was even writing the story, for if he had precious his readers to be certified only about animals, hed have put these facts in a science book instead. I think Doyle was relating the animals hearts with that of human hearts. He state sometimes humming birds get burned out without even realiseing what theyre doing is dangerous. Humans also do the same thing.Todays world is very fast paced. sometimes we dont have time to rest or do anything of that natur e. We do it, without knowing how unhealthy to the body and spirit that is. He also alludes that the heart is a very strong thing. Not just our forcible heart, but our emotional and spiritual heart as well. So oft can happen to someones heart. It can go by the most joy, excitement, hurt and trouble and still beat at the end of the day. I think the way Doyle transitions form talking about hummingbirds and whales to something so emotional was very effective.He makes it easy for us to relate to his story because he keeps us so involved. I felt as if he was effectuate the story to me instead of the other way around. Sian-Pierre Regis stated As should be obvious by now, Doyle is doing far more than describing the hearts of various animals. In explaining about the hearts of animals, he has subtly been drawing us into this world We all churn inside. In this creation there is unimaginable dish antenna (flying jewels) and there is hurt agony (a brilliant symphony stilled).And so fi nally, we are led to his masterful ending and the real start out aim of this whole piece. If youve read this far, I encourage you to take a subtile and quiet your heart. Let yourself smell these words. It may hurt, but it testament close certainly heal as well. In giving an overview of the hearts of creatures, Doyle ends with this So much held in a heart in lifetime. So much held in a heart in day, and hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the endnot mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not shaver, not friend.We open windows to from to each one one but we live alone in the house of the heart. by chance we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a invariably harrowed heart. When young we think there will come one mortal who will savor and sustain us always when we are old we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of c haracter, yet finespun and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you scram to the wall.You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and sonorous and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a womans second glance, a childs apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words I have something to identify you, a cat with a upset(a) gummed label dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mothers papery antediluvian patriarch hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of your fathers enunciate early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children. The article A Metaphorical Analysis of Martin Luther magnate Jr. s I wee-wee a Dream Speech, by Joe Ciesinski, to me is an aide to help understand the metaphors Dr. Martin Luther ability used within his famous speech I have a Dream. Ciesinski cited others opinions about the speech which a lso was another great source of helping understand the speech. Within the article, the question What does I Have a Dream mean to me was asked. To me, when someone asks me what does I Have a Dream mean to me, I would say that it makes me feel as if the color of my skin or my sex should never be a factor of why I cant do anything that I want to do. Anybody should be capable of saying the same.Ciesinski imagines that I Have a Dream would not only speak about problems in America, but that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr would call upon all citizens of the United States to enact change and even the injustices that would occur finishedout our nation. Martin Luther King Jr. contrasts rickety and dark metaphors when he states, this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. (Ciesinski) The previous quote to me sums up the ent ire I Have a Dream speech.It focuses on the struggles of colored people and how the nation needs to take the time out to notice that these hate crimes need to come to an end. Overall, I think Ciesinskis metaphorical analysis is a great help to distinguish the lawful meaning and break down of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s speech. I also believe that he used good sources to help collect the famous speech. It is a stark metaphor, an accusation articulated in roundly economic terms. The Declaration of Independence implied, and later the Emancipation Proclamation promised, purposeful freedom to African Americans. But the promise was never fulfilled. Instead of recognise this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a good-for-naught check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds, King said. This part of the speech has been mostly forgotten, swamped in collective memory by the soaring rhetoric of Kings peroration. When initial renderings for the vernal Mar tin Luther King Jr. National Memorial were first unveiled, they included a outstanding place for the promissory-note metaphor, but as the project went forward the quotation was deemed in like manner confrontational and dropped from the final design. What is best remembered from the Dream speech is, in fact, not original to it.The thrilling incantation, the cries of let freedom ring, the litany of place names (the snowcapped Rockies, the molehills of Mississippi), the lines borrowed from the scriptural books of Amos and Isaiah, the quotations from spirituals and patriotic songs none of this material was original to the speech King gave on the Mall. Most of it was recycled, an impromptu decision by King to reuse some of the best applause lines he had tested in Georgia, North Carolina, aluminum and, only weeks earlier, in Detroit. Stated by Philip Kennicott. misfortunate talks by Anne Carson was an article full of miniature lectures with a different meaning for each one.Some of th e short articles were conf utilize but the others caught my attention. An article in Short talks that was easily understood was ON WALKING backwards. ON WALKING BACKWARDS was about how as a child Carson states My mother would forbid us to notch backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Carson goes on to say that she had no understanding where that particular(prenominal) superstition came from. Later to break the quote down, the dead doesnt walk backwards but they do walk behind us with no lungs to breath or cannot call but would love for us to mould around.Superstitions are to be used and known all across the world. concord to Keisha Stephen-Gittens from Outlish Magazine quotes Since I was a child, I used to hear my grannie telling my mother that if she came home after midnight, she break had walk in the house backwards so that spirits dont fall out her inside. Thats funny, because many of us feters would have some back walk to do. So, I was surprised to find tha t almost 60% of the persons I randomly surveyed still do this today. I followed this superstition religiously until I go out on my own, and then, ironically, I would just ook left, even up and around before I entered my apartment. Youd think I would be really hydrophobic and in a way yes, but I was looking for bandits, not spirits. However, the way things goin these days, is bess we look for both yes Weve also been told to close doors facing the foreign so that spirits dont follow you inside. There are other superstitions about spirits and death and our older folks would tell these with a passion and intensity that would send you to bed quivering, wanting a pillow to hug up and sleeping with one eye open.If youre alone in the house and you hear someone call your name, would you conclude? I wont. The ole folks used to say do not answer, cause it could be a spirit calling. I think this is a given. Ive takeed too many horror movies to know what the outcome of THAT could be. Jo n Eben depicted object states The female body is a powerful signifier in these poems. Short pour forths invokes the last thirty age of Camille Claudels life in an re persist (Claudel was a French sculptor who worked from 1884 to 1898 as an assistant to Auguste Rodin).After noting that Claudel broke all the sculpting stone given to her, Carson writes, Night was when her hands grew, huger and huger until in the photograph they are like two parts of someone else loaded onto her knees. Claudels hands are both her own and not her own they have grown through disuse and misuse. But the absence is discovered in the formless broken stones that are buried with these hands, now so gargantuan. In Short Talk On Rectification, Carson depicts the infamous relationship between Franz Kafka and Felice Bauer Kafka liked to have his watch an hour and a half fast. Felice kept setting it right.Nonetheless for five years they almost married. Ultimately, it is the body of Felice that overwhelms Kafk a, for as Carson writes, When advised not to speak by the doctors in the sanatorium, he left glass sentences all over the floor. Felice, says one of them, had too much nakedness left in her. This signals the second most pervasive theme of these poems, the devastating plenitude of too much. Eula Biss The Pain eggshell is about how no matter how much something is painful, no pain lasts forever. passim the article Biss gives examples of pain as she goes from 0 to 10 on a pain scale.She gives examples like if you are at a zero, you feel no pain therefore you could be fine. If you are at a 1, you could take some aspirin and be fine the next day. If you are at an 8 you might need some examining. If you are at a nine then, you are suffering and it gets even worse at a level ten which is unbearable. The Pain Scale, Eula Biss claims that no pain lasts forever. Biss goes on to say that when you experience the pain regardless of how bad the pain is, once the pain goes away you cant feel th e pain anymore. I got a feeling that the author is indifferent to pain and does not know how to feel or describe it.I felt that the authors mind is being manoeuver by what her father use to tell her. She does not know how to describe what she is feeling or think for herself. The author feels as if excruciating pain does not exist. She sees zero as a number that does not do the same thing as the other numbers and she uses scriptural illusions concerning Jesus.. The author goes back and forth from her pain theory and analysis, to her current pain situation. She is obviously feeling some pain but she thinks the face map does not help her know what level she is that. She lies to the doctor to not appear foolish but really she does have great pain.The author thinks that if she admits to her great somatogenetic pain, she will seem pathetic and exaggerated. The author has apparent physical pain but also mental trauma from her father the physician. Her psychological pain I think is grea ter than her physical one in a couple of ways. I agree with Biss on this issue. Overall, I believe that no pain lasts forever. If a person were to ask another how something felt, they could never sit there and visualize the full effect of that pain right then and there unless you go through the same pain again at the time being.Our Secret by Susan Griffin is a loanblend of memoir, history, and journalism, and is built with these discrete strands the Holocaust women affected by World war II directly or indirectly in their treatment by husbands and fathers the harsh, repressive boyhood of Heinrich Himmler, who grew up to command Nazi rocketry and became the key architect of Judaic genocide the testimony of a man scarred by war and Griffins own desperately unhappy family life and harsh, oppress girlhood.In between these chunks are short italic passages of just a fewer sentences on carrell biologyfor instance, how the shell around the nucleus of the cell allows only some substanc es to pass throughand on the development of guided missiles in Germany and, later, by many of the same scientists, in the United States, where thermonuclear warheads were added and the ICBM created. Researching her book in Paris, Griffin meets a woman, Helene, who survived one of Himmlers death camps.Shed been turned in by another Jew and track down using a net of informationa carcass tracing back to Himmlers boyhood diariescollected on cards and sent to the Gestapo for duplication and filing, the work of countless men and women. In the article Translating translation Finding the Beginning, Alberto Alvaro Rios claims that the act is the translation by presenting translation as a metaphor and how cultures are different. Rios goes on to say that how something is said, the quarrel can be figured.In Rios article, he had multiple examples of how cultures are different. Some of the examples that he expressed where how a man was put in jail, forgotten about and never said anything, how his house painting went wrong when he was young, and how Rios had a misinterpretation about flake. I agree with Rios on this issue when he stated that schooling languages can be similar to looking through a set of binoculars. Overall, I believe that it is true that the simplest word can have many definitions and interpretations.For example when Rios moved into his bare-ass home when he was younger. His mother wanted the wall to be yellow but the Mexican thought she wanted it to be lime green due to the fact that said limon. another(prenominal) example was when the boy asked how many fights has he had. The boy meant physical fighting but Rios meant the fight he has had learning a new language. I believe that the metaphors were very effective because they helped understand the main key points Rios was hard to make.Alberto Rios states Linguists, by using electrodes on the vocal cords, have been able to lay down that English has tenser vowels than, for example, Spanish. The body itself speaks a language differently, so that moving from one language to another is more than translating words. Its getting the body ready as well. Its getting the heart ready along with the mind. Ive been intrigued by this information. It addresses the physicality of language in a way that perhaps surprises us.In this sense, we forget that words arent simply what they mean they are also physical acts. I often talk about the duality of language using the metaphor of binoculars, how by using two lenses one might see something better, closer, with more detail. The apparatus, the binoculars, are of course physically clumsy as is the learning of two languages, and all the signage and so on that this entails theyre clumsy, but once put to the eyes a new world in that moment opens up to us.And its not a new world at all its the same world, but simply better seen, and therefore better understood. Overall, metaphors will elevate your writing, taking something plain and transforming it into something beautiful. rime is full of metaphors. If you need to, use one of your rewriting cycles just to add metaphors to your story. Imagine how greater your story will be with the use of metaphors. Metaphors will free up your imagination, which will take your story in directions you may not have planned on. Enjoy the surprises that metaphors will bring to you