Saturday, January 30, 2016

Petals of Fire


I'm reading The picture of Dorian Gray now and I am absolutely fascinated by Oscar Wilde's style of writing. All of his metaphors are true jewels of literature. However, the one that I'm posting below stroke me with it's almost horrifying beauty and perfection:

©2016, Cristiana Bobeva

The heat was terribly oppressive, and the huge sunlight flamed like a monstrous dahlia with petals of yellow fire.”




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