Discussion of Metaphor
"Nobody alive during the war, whether a combatant or not, ever got over its special
dictation and system of metaphor, its whole jargon of techniques and tactics and
strategy. (One reason we can use a term like tactics so readily, literally or in metaphors, is that the Great War taught it to us.) And often what impressed itself so deeply was something more than language. Not a few works written during the war, and written about matters far distant from the war, carry more of the war about them is always recognized."
The Great War and Modern Memory