tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897950.post115214798748128273..comments2024-02-03T08:17:24.123-06:00Comments on Loud Time: David A. Zimmerman's Blog of Miscellany: Creative License RevokedDavid Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04736122606687383813noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897950.post-1154459131192448992006-08-01T14:05:00.000-05:002006-08-01T14:05:00.000-05:00Literature is replete also with references to myth...Literature is replete also with references to mythology and the bible.<BR/><BR/>Many MLK Jr Speeches reference Amos (justice rolls down like a mighty water... etc) and usually several other biblcal passages or stories.<BR/><BR/>It's also interesting (but not neccesarily what you're looking for) to see how literary classics influence current images and stories. Dante's Inferno, for example (I bethanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08163733354894909762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897950.post-1152329841486006932006-07-07T22:37:00.000-05:002006-07-07T22:37:00.000-05:00Have you been reading Al's word-a-day flip calenda...Have you been reading Al's word-a-day flip calendar again? <BR/><BR/>:)Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14426235232844262043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897950.post-1152205621179732582006-07-06T12:07:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:07:00.000-05:00What ladies?What ladies?Webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780097635027090571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897950.post-1152205584627715182006-07-06T12:06:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:06:00.000-05:00au contraire mon frere:A comparison is being made....au contraire mon frere:<BR/>A comparison is being made. In this case a simile, but still a comparison based on a literary allusion.<BR/> <BR/>He starts to shake and cough<BR/>just <B>like</B> the old man in<BR/>that book by Nabakov.<BR/><BR/>So, now chronologically I've got a song by The Police (<B> 1981 </B>), Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn and it's many Moby Dick comparisons and allusions(<B> Mr Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05695133074084359840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897950.post-1152204167299727262006-07-06T11:42:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:42:00.000-05:00So, for example, Sting's reference to "that book b...So, for example, Sting's reference to "that book by Nabakov" in "Don't Stand So Close to Me" is close to what you're looking for, although it doesn't serve the function of metaphor, whereas REM's "I am Superman" or the scene in <I>The Breakup</I> in which Vince Vaughn says "I'll play it like Lionel Richie--All Night Long" do refer back in metaphor. Right?<BR/><BR/>Mark Twain's <I>Diary of Adam David Zimmermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04736122606687383813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897950.post-1152201885390442312006-07-06T11:04:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:04:00.000-05:00A little clarification (at least my interpretation...A little clarification (at least my interpretation). Here's the T.S. Eliot example: <BR/>No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nore was meant to be;<BR/><BR/>If you don't know your Shakeyspeare you aren't going to fully understand the comparison he is making. Of course if you don't know your Shakey you probably wouldn't be reading T.S.<BR/><BR/>Our constantly changing language is often incorporating and Mr Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05695133074084359840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897950.post-1152161900553511712006-07-05T23:58:00.000-05:002006-07-05T23:58:00.000-05:00thems a lotta big words ya used there.thems a lotta big words ya used there.Margaret Feinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00618923034620497185noreply@blogger.com