Metaphor and allusion likewise offer conventional paths to a quality: openhandedness can signify generosity, tightness of the hand can suggest miserliness, and a warm welcome may indicate nobility.
A wide hand is not literally generosity; the relation is a familiar allusive one. Two poets drawing on that common connection have not thereby established copying.
The question becomes whether they also share an unusually specific elaboration beyond the established convention.
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Poetic Borrowing: Common Meanings, Recognizable Taking, Naskh and Intihal
Metaphor and allusion likewise offer conventional paths to a quality: openhandedness can signify generosity, tightness of the hand can suggest miserliness, and a warm welcome may indicate nobility.
A wide hand is not literally generosity; the relation is a familiar allusive one. Two poets drawing on that common connection have not thereby established copying.
The question becomes whether they also share an unusually specific elaboration beyond the established convention.