Aristotle, Second Part of the RHETORIC Complete

Translated by W. Roberts.

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"Downward anon to the valley rebounded the boulder remorseless; and "

"The (bitter) arrow flew; "

and

"Flying on eagerly; and "

Stuck in the earth, still panting to feed on the flesh of the heroes; and

"And the point of the spear in its fury drove

"full through his breastbone. "

In all these examples the things have the effect of being active because they are made into living beings; shameless behaviour and fury and so on are all forms of activity. And the poet has attached these ideas to the things by means of proportional metaphors: as the stone is to Sisyphus, so is the shameless man to his victim. In his famous similes, too, he treats inanimate things in the same way:

"Curving and crested with white, host following

"host without ceasing. "

Here he represents everything as moving and living; and activity is movement.

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