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11364645 No.11364645 [Reply] [Original]

Can you recommend me some collection of metaphors, analogies, and similes or some writers that use metaphors the way Shakespeare use it?

>> No.11364663

>>11364645

Jesus Christ.

>> No.11364680

>>11364663
thanks, is there a collection of only the parables of Jesus?

>> No.11364696

>>11364680

It's called "New Testament".

Anon - just read it. It will take you a few hours.

>> No.11366392

>>11364680
There are some cheap KJVs with only his words highlighted in red. Can be found for less than 10 at B&N. But check out the prose of Ben Jonson, Thomas Nashe, Jeremy Taylor, John Donne (sermons) and Sir Walter Raleigh.

>> No.11366394

No one does it like the bard

>> No.11366405

>>11366394
This is true- he's in a league of his own. Even the sciences are heavily indebted to him.

>> No.11367757

>>11366392
Thanks, I'm obsessed with shakespeare and his metaphors