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Evidence From Design of the Creation Model Kathy Lynn Hutson
Metaphor has become the Cinderella of literary analysis—a rather
dramatic and self-consciously metaphorical summation, perhaps,
but nevertheless true in light of metaphor’s increasing
dominance in studies ranging from literary criticism to the
philosophical realms of epistemology and ontology. This
previously unheralded figure of speech has increasingly been
recognized as a central element in literature, especially
poetry, as reflected in C. Day Lewis’s remark that “metaphor
remains the life-principle of poetry, the poet’s chief test and
glory.” 1 But what has made the transformation of this
Cinderella so “magical” is its rise and dominance as a principle
of language and thought. In this broader view, metaphor is used
as a synonym for figurative thought processes. Men have long
understood and explained newly-perceived objects in terms of
previously-known objects. And they have sought c