subject: Christian Louboutin Literal And Metaphorical [print this page] Eliot praises the description for two reasons: first, because of its aptness for Cleopatra's Jimmy Choo leather pigalle pumps red, since even in death Cleopatra's beauty was a potential "toil," or snare, in which Antony could be entrapped. Second, Eliot admired these lines because Shakespeare's figurative language blurs the distinction between the literal and metaphorical. "Grace" could be ambiguously secular and spiritual: as both a form of physical allure and the state of one who has been unconditionally blessed. In addition, "toil" could be both a physical effort and the aforementioned snare. For Jimmy Choo North sandal patented leather Black, this tension within the metaphor was the reason for its success: "the healthy metaphor adds to the strength of the language [and] makes available some of that physical source of energy upon which the life of language depends" ("Studies" 114). At this early stage in his career as a critic - like many before and after him - Eliot views Jimmy Choo patent Piri'platform d'orsay sand as a poet (one who just happens to be a dramatist as well), and Eliot's admiration for Antony and Cleopatra is intimately tied to the play's strengths as verse.
No other example of Shakespeare's mastery of the language so delighted Eliot as did Cleopatra's "Jimmy Choo patented leather pumps black toil of grace." In "Philip Massinger" (1920), Eliot documents how Massinger's "feeling for language had outstripped his feeling for things" (Essays 185) and provides a contrast with those familiar lines describing Cleopatra.
