Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Page 36
... metaphoric language . The kind of spoken language Patrick Fernando knew as a child with its still perfectly natural metaphoric vitality shaped his response to the world and remained a permanent resource when he began to write in modern ...
... metaphoric language . The kind of spoken language Patrick Fernando knew as a child with its still perfectly natural metaphoric vitality shaped his response to the world and remained a permanent resource when he began to write in modern ...
Page 37
... metaphoric not literal . It opens on to a world in which time and space are relative to the fate of the participants in the human experience explored in this poem . The participants here are the poet , Peter and of course ourselves ...
... metaphoric not literal . It opens on to a world in which time and space are relative to the fate of the participants in the human experience explored in this poem . The participants here are the poet , Peter and of course ourselves ...
Page 40
... metaphoric , define elusive feelings of smug concealment with great precision , as the owl perches comfortably on legend in the West ( Athena wears his eyes ) or takes cover in the East ( ' abominable omen ' ) behind a screen of ...
... metaphoric , define elusive feelings of smug concealment with great precision , as the owl perches comfortably on legend in the West ( Athena wears his eyes ) or takes cover in the East ( ' abominable omen ' ) behind a screen of ...
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