Sergeant
Doubtful it stood;
As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald–”
The lines quoted by the sergant in Act 1 Scene 2 resemble Metaphor and to translate the real defintion in today’s English is basically. The overall battle was uncertain the two armies resembled two tired swimmers holding one another and choke their art is the line talking about how tired they were
October 19, 2016 at 11:22 pm
Exactly right. They don’t ‘resemble’ a metaphor though, they ARE a metaphor.