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Katrinarc Posted 15 years ago
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Figurative meaning?
Hi, can you help me with this extract? I don't understand the meaning of the highlighted sentence, could it be figurative?:
A torch-light procession of hundreds of winter-blooming aloes – red-flame, blue-flame, white-flame – passes a church upon a hill in an infinity of empty hills. A range of shadows – the Drakensberg Mountains that form Transkei's north-east border – fades with the light that is leaving a feminine lands cape of classical curves broken here and there by ravines intimately furred with virgin forest. Where this has been replaced by afforestation already there is the inappropriate European dusk gathered by Northern pine. A slope is a football field because racing youngsters are using it for that purpose, and marks one of the 'rehabilitation' villages established to control landless people and soil erosión caused by random grazing: several hundred rounds of mud and thatch instead of hilltop crowns of two or three, the new tin flash of a windmill, kilómetros of wire fencing.
A torch-light procession of hundreds of winter-blooming aloes – red-flame, blue-flame, white-flame – passes a church upon a hill in an infinity of empty hills. A range of shadows – the Drakensberg Mountains that form Transkei's north-east border – fades with the light that is leaving a feminine lands cape of classical curves broken here and there by ravines intimately furred with virgin forest. Where this has been replaced by afforestation already there is the inappropriate European dusk gathered by Northern pine. A slope is a football field because racing youngsters are using it for that purpose, and marks one of the 'rehabilitation' villages established to control landless people and soil erosión caused by random grazing: several hundred rounds of mud and thatch instead of hilltop crowns of two or three, the new tin flash of a windmill, kilómetros of wire fencing.
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Certainly nothing more figurative there than in the rest of the passage. New trees have been planted in some areas, and so it looks more like a European scene than a Transkei one. Don't ask me why.
- Certainly nothing more figurative there than in the rest of the passage.
- New trees have been planted in some areas, and so it looks more like a European scene than a Transkei one.
- Don't ask me why.
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Certainly nothing more figurative there than in the rest of the passage. New trees have been planted in some areas, and so it looks more like a European scene than a Transkei one. Don't ask me why.
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