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This 4 page paper discusses the use of metaphors in the work of Ezra Pound and Jean Toomer. Examples cited from texts. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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with the use of very few words. Metaphors tend to increase the intensity of the thought, mood, or message in a work. Jean Toomers work, Portrait in Georgia, and Ezra
Pounds poem, In a Station at the Metro, serve as two such examples of metaphors in action. A metaphor, literally is a figure of speech where a word or a
collection of words denote one kind of object or idea and is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or similarity between them. An example might be died
of a broken heart or swimming in sin. Metaphors assert that an object is or has become the other thing, not that the object is like it. The common qualifier
used with a metaphor is the use of the verb be or is. Furthermore, it can be said that a metaphor not only gives an explanation by making the abstract
object knowable by comparison to another familiar object, but it can be said to show the connectedness of all things. Jean Toomers work, Portrait in Georgia, is a stunning example
of juxtaposition of metaphors. The beautiful Southern Belle is used to represent the message that all of the beauty that was the old South was built upon the blood and
savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with the idea of torture and defilement of that beauty. "And
her slim body, white as the ash of black flesh after flame. Hair--braided chestnut,
coiled like a lynchers rope"(Toomer). The specific images used here for the
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