objective correlative

English

objective correlative (plural objective correlatives)

A physical representation or manifestation of an abstract concept; especially, a symbolic artistic representation of a particular emotion, feeling etc.
- 2007, Mat Snow, The Guardian, 2 Feb 2007:
  Neil Young invented strung-out country-rock in 1975 with his album Tonight's the Night, its bittersweet desolation finding an objective correlative in the setting of America's south-western desert states.
- 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 46:
  Eleven years later, in 586, after another senseless revolt, Jerusalem was destroyed and Yahweh's temple, his objective correlative on earth, was burned to the ground.

单词	objective correlative
释义	objective correlative English Noun objective correlative (plural objective correlatives) A physical representation or manifestation of an abstract concept; especially, a symbolic artistic representation of a particular emotion, feeling etc. 2007, Mat Snow, The Guardian, 2 Feb 2007: Neil Young invented strung-out country-rock in 1975 with his album Tonight's the Night, its bittersweet desolation finding an objective correlative in the setting of America's south-western desert states. 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 46: Eleven years later, in 586, after another senseless revolt, Jerusalem was destroyed and Yahweh's temple, his objective correlative on earth, was burned to the ground.
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