A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse
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3. Examples lie everywhere. Take all of Collins' Ode to the Passions. Further : — " Slander, whose whisper . . ." — Hamlet. " Strong War sets hand to the scythe, and the furrows take fire . from his feet." ■ — Swinburne, Erechtheus. § 6. ALLEGORY. Allegory, as we know, is " where more is meant than meets the ear " — or eye. One thinks immediately of STYLE. 103 Gulliver's Travels, of the Pilgrims Progress, or of the Faery Queene. That is in subject-matter. But in point of style, allegory is a su...stained metaphor, one extended into several phrases or clauses, so that we do not think so much of the object as of the illustration. Often, how- ever, abruptness makes up for length. Hamlet, think- ing of his counter-plot against the king (iii. 4), says : — " For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar : and 't shall go hard, But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon." Cf. Jul. Cess. II. I : — " 'tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder," &c.
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