West-Eastern Divan by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Gingko Library
Published: 2019-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

TRANSITION FROM TROPES TO SIMILES

Since all that’s been said so far holds true as well for closely related comparisons, a few examples may serve to confirm our assertion.

The hunter glimpsed waking up in the open field compares the rising sun to a falcon:

Life and action penetrate my breast,

I stand firmly on my own two feet again:

For the golden falcon, on broad pinions,

Hovers above his azure nest.

Or, more splendidly still, to a lion:

The mists of daybreak became bright again,

Heart and mind were all at once made glad

When the night, that shy gazelle,

Fled from the lion of the morning’s threat.

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