وَإِذَا الْمَنِيَّةُ أَنْشَبَتْ أَظْفَارَهَا
When death has dug in its claws.
Death is pictured as a beast with claws; “aẓfār” signals the imagined creature, although death has no literal claws. The concealed comparison, made visible through an attribute of the imagined beast, belongs to the discussion of implicit metaphor.
The passage is not merely a list of body parts. Identify how a beast is conceptually associated with death and which particular word makes the image perceptible.
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Research Practicum: Evidence, Context and Adjudicating Similar Rhetorical Figures
وَإِذَا الْمَنِيَّةُ أَنْشَبَتْ أَظْفَارَهَا
When death has dug in its claws.
Death is pictured as a beast with claws; “aẓfār” signals the imagined creature, although death has no literal claws. The concealed comparison, made visible through an attribute of the imagined beast, belongs to the discussion of implicit metaphor.
The passage is not merely a list of body parts. Identify how a beast is conceptually associated with death and which particular word makes the image perceptible.