Ailanthus has become a part of western culture as well, with the tree serving as the central metaphor and subject matter of the best-selling American novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.
When it comes to metaphorical meaning: metaphors are subject to interpretation in much the same way or sense as dreams are.
Marge Clouts Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire The title of Clive James's latest collection of poems Nefertiti in the Flak Tower (Picador) indicates, with its disjunction of ancient beauty and 20th-century warfare, the dazzling leaps of metaphor and subject it contains.
This is the metaphor's primary subject or tenor: the young girl Juliet in the case of Romeo's metaphor; history, Ireland's history or the world's, in the case of Stephen's; works, prose writings in general, in the case of Benjamin's.
In this sense the books are a metaphor for their subject, the mafia, and its code of omerta, silence.
Such pluralism is a metaphor for its subject, as the variety of physical perspectives lends a vivid you-are-there aspect to this record of the Zuccotti Park protest in New York in 2011, which spawned similar demonstrations in Philadelphia Los Angeles Seattle Oaklandand, Calif.; and around the world.
By Vince Aletti Like the Mississippi River, which anchored the photographer Alec Soth's first book in history, myth, and metaphor, Niagara Falls — the subject of his next book and a new exhibition at the Gagosian gallery's Chelsea outpost — is both a site and a state of mind.
This is the metaphor's secondary subject or vehicle: the sun; nightmares from which one tries to awake; death masks, i.e., death masks in general.
In English, the term 'guinea pig' is commonly used as a metaphor for a subject of scientific experimentation, or any experiment or test in modern times.
Only some of a metaphor's primary subjects and some of its secondary subjects are explicitly referred to by any verbal expression contained therein.
