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METAPHOR
METAPHOR
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Metaphor”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Metaphor” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines the violence of poetic comparison and the poem’s awareness of its own method, tracing the final pause as an attempt to hear beyond the images language imposes.
ESSAY
ESSAY
