 | Trevor Whittock - Performing Arts - 1990 - 200 pages
...risk of neglecting. CHAPTER II The concept of poetic metaphor Their language is vitally metaphoric: that is, it marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension. - Percy Bysshe Shelley1 Metaphor is usually defined as the presentation of one idea in terms of another,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 244 pages
...Shelley could claim that the poets had actually created language and kept it alive: "Language is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended...of things and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words which represent them become, through time, signs for portions or classes of thoughts instead... | |
 | Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach - Drama - 1992 - 468 pages
...between perception and expression." The poet's language, therefore, is "vitally metaphorical [in that] it marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension." This sentiment can be found over and over in the literature of phenomenology. Consider the simple statement... | |
 | Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 330 pages
...the creative authority of "poets, in the most universal sense of the word": Their language is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended...things, and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words which represent them, become through time signs for portions or classes of thoughts instead... | |
 | Colin Falck - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 234 pages
...and the form of the creations of poetry. The language of poetry, or of poets, he tells us, is vitally metaphorical: that is, it marks the before unapprehended...represent them, become through time, signs for portions or ' See Thomas Love Peacock. "Four ages of poetry" in The Works of Thomas Love Peacock, vol. 8, ed. HFB... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dialogues, Greek - 1994 - 796 pages
...itself to others, and gathers 20 a sort of reduplication from the community. Their language is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended...apprehension, until words which represent them become through tine signs for portions or classes of •/ ^^ * ' 5) A Defence of Poetry. thought, instead of integral... | |
 | Henri Dorra - Art - 1994 - 420 pages
...Shelley had made precisely that point when he asserted in 1821 that the poet's "language is vitally metaphorical, that is, it marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehensions, until the words which represent them become, through time, signs for portions and classes... | |
 | William A. Covino - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 208 pages
...thought, new associations that eventually resonate in the political reorganization of society: "[Poetry] marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words which represent them, become, through time, signs for portions or classes of thoughts" that... | |
 | Charles Cantalupo - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 398 pages
...because of the unsatisfactory Gikuyu orthography" (Decolonising 74). 3. "[Poets'] language is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended...things, and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words which represent them, become through time signs for portions or classes of thoughts instead... | |
 | Gilbert D. Chaitin - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 296 pages
...condensed in the syntagmatic and paradigmatic 'axes' he developed from Saussure. 'language is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension'.50 According to the context theory, all meaning functions metaphorically, for 'when we... | |
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Their language is vitally metaphorical ; that is, it marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words which represent them, become, through time, signs for portions or classes of thoughts instead of... 
