art in the shadow

Under the overhang of new and innovative art, in that shadow, other art, equal to what overshadows it, can still be made.

stands aside

The poet stands aside: Someone standing in the shadow of the doorway, waiting for hours for who knows what.

taking umbrage

Except for the first, each line of the poem struggles to get out from under the shadow of the prior line. (The first line vies with the title to be recognized and heard.)

hidden in the negative space

All the words and passages cut away from the poem form a shadow poem that seems to stalk the final draft.

shadow metaphor

Each rhyme pair was a shadow metaphor in the poem.

long cast

The long line cast as though by a fly rod over the stream at a shimmer or shadow just under the surface.

shadow presence

Metaphor: from the shadow of a thing emerges another thing long hidden.

imaginative elsewhere

Poets dream within their imaginative elsewhere. In Scotland we live with very occasional illumination, so ours is actually a rather sunlit verse; by contrast, the Spanish poet is stalked by shadow.

—Don Paterson, The Blind Eye, Faber & Faber 2007

shadow symbol

Often the poetic image casts a shadow symbol.

effigy and shadow

Every real effigy has a shadow which is its double; and art must falter and fail from the moment the sculptor believes he has liberated the kind of shadow whose very existence will destroy his repose.

—Antonin Artaud, preface to The Theatre and its Double, translated by Mary Caroline Richards