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Chester_100
11-18-2008, 07:04 PM
Comparison and categorization are two basic natural ways of understanding the concepts as well as the objects around us. Grown out of the former, metaphors are amongthe most pleasing literary devices.

I’m looking for masterpieces of English literature with respect to metaphor.
Would you please enumerate some of them? (Preferably those available online)

Bitterfly
11-18-2008, 07:50 PM
All of Shakespeare! :D

andave_ya
11-18-2008, 10:54 PM
What about James Joyce? I've heard his "Ulysses" is full of them, although I haven't read it. If I recall correctly, I did see some in his "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

JBI
11-18-2008, 11:11 PM
Virtually all poetry. In fact, every speaker of every language uses metaphors. It is far more difficult to not use them than to use them.

Etienne
11-18-2008, 11:47 PM
http://media.www.arbiteronline.com/media/storage/paper890/news/2004/02/12/Ae/Literature.Professor.Translates.MetaphorLaden.Fren ch.Novel-2216327.shtml

I had seen this yesterday, so I thought it was opportune. It's novelist Réjean Ducharme.

Tallon
11-19-2008, 01:40 AM
Erewhon - Samuel Butler, guess it is more a satire than a metaphor.

kelby_lake
11-19-2008, 02:57 PM
The Great Gatsby

prendrelemick
11-22-2008, 06:41 PM
Moby Dick, on so many levels

Alt+Ctrl+Delete
11-22-2008, 07:13 PM
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx.

kelby_lake
11-23-2008, 08:51 AM
The Metamorphosis

aeroport
11-24-2008, 01:16 AM
A few Henry James stories stand out to me, because the titles of these works are themselves metaphors: The Beast in the Jungle, The Figure in the Carpet, The Death of the Lion.
All available here. http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/

bazarov
11-24-2008, 03:48 PM
Don Quijote.

weltanschauung
11-24-2008, 10:08 PM
Erewhon - Samuel Butler, guess it is more a satire than a metaphor.

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Inderjit Sanghe
11-25-2008, 10:12 AM
In terms of non-English literature, Proust is by far the master of metaphors. I faintly remember counting half a dozen in the first page alone.