Article: "So stretched out huge in length": reading the extended simile.

Article: Requiem for a fallen Polyphemus: Cameroon's Bate Besong is no ...
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... a poetry collection--Disgrace Emanya--Nkpe--which was launched on March 7th 2007, Besong compares poetry in an extended simile to sweet nectar, to multi tangerines, to cycles of redemption and to a love portion. To Besong, poets are Spartans because ...

Article: Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".(19th-century ...
The Explicator;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... traced." [1] Yet one allusion to literary art has gone unnoticed. It occurs in, or rather consists of, the concluding extended simile, in which the poet says that, upon reading Homer in Chapman's translation, he felt like stout Cortez when with eagle ...

Article: A New Translation of Dante.(Critical Essay)
The Literary Review;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... in the New World. We offer two passages from our translation. The first shows Dante in one of his strongest modes, the extended simile. These appear throughout the poem, but have a particular vivacity in the second half of the Inferno. They often, as ...

Article: Suicide, sunflowers, songs don't mix in 'Harold and Maude'
Oakland Tribune;  July 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... which should be a whole lot more moving than it is. Myers performs "The Chance to Sing" well, but do we really need an extended simile about how we're like birds and need to fly and to sing? Maybe in "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" but not here. Welcome ...

Dictionary definition: analogy
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;      317 words ... ... it in some significant features, and thus said to be analogous to it. Analogies are often presented in the form of an extended simile , as in Blake's aphorism : ‘As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest ...

Encyclopedia entry: epic simile
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      278 words ...epic simile, an extended simile which compares one composite action with another, often with a digressive effect; it originates in Homer , and was imitated by Virgil , Dante , and, in English, notably by Milton . It is frequently parodied by Fielding .

Article: Worth the wait?
Opera News;  February 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... The use of simile in Marcellina's "nanny-goat" and "billy-goat" aria shows Mozart and Da Ponte poking fun at the extended simile of seria librettists like Metastasio - and bringing it down to a barnyard level. Basilio's invocation of hailstorm and ...