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1、ErnestHemingwayAmericanliterarygeniuswriteristhetwentiethcentury,withitsconciselanguage,concisenarrativeandIcebergprinciplewithdeepimplications,varietiesofimpliedmeaningsandsymbolcolors.ErnestHemingway’s“icebergtheory”,presentedbythemetaphor,suggeststhatthewriterincludeinthetexton
2、lyasmallportionofwhatheknows,leavingaboutninetypercentofthecontentamysterythatgrowsbeneaththesurfaceofthewriting.EspeciallyinhisfamousshortstoryTheSnowsofKilimanjaro,alotofuseofmetaphormakesthenovelitsartisticcreationoftheclassic.ThetitleofthenovelTheSnowsofKilimanjarocontainstwom
3、etaphors.“Kilimanjaroisasnowcoveredmountain19,710feethigh,anditissaidtobethehighestmountaininAfrica.ItswesternsummitiscalledtheMasai"NgàjeNgài,"theHouseofGod.”Inthesentence,Hemingwayusedthemountaintometaphorloftyandimmortal.Atthesametime,the“driedandfrozencarcassofaleopard”whichcl
4、osetothewesternsummitreferstothepursuitofloftyspirit.Inadditiontothehighmountain,thetitleofthenovelandarticlehasmentioned"snow"formanytimes.Ininstance,thesnow,in“asnowcoveredmountain”and“thesnowwassobright”,metaphorthepurityandtruthwhichembodiesmetaphoricalconceptthat“whiteispurit
5、y”.Inwesternculture,whiteisthesymbolofhumanlifeintheGardenofEdennaivety,alsoasymbolofhuman'spursuitofgoals,thepurificationofthesoul.InChristianity,thebridewearsawhiteweddingdress,theangelsinheavenalsowearingawhitegown,sowhitesnowreferstomentalstateofhighpurity.Deathisacommonthemei
6、nHemingway'sworks.Asnoveldescribingawriterwhowasdying,HemingwayusedlotsofmetaphortodescribetheHarrydiedbeforestateofmindandfeelings.Forexamples,“therewerethreeofthebigbirdssquattedobscenely,whileintheskyadozenmoresailed,makingquick-movingshadowsastheypassed.”“Helookedovertowhereth
7、ehuge,filthybirdssat,theirnakedheadssunkinthehunchedfeathers.Afourthplaneddown,torunquick-leggedandthenwaddleslowlytowardtheothers.”“'Neverbelieveanyofthataboutascytheandaskull,'hetoldher.'Itcanbetwobicyclepolicemenaseasilyorbeabird.Oritcanhaveawidesnoutlikeahyena.'”Thebreeze,sick
8、le,skeletons,twopolicemen,abirdan
