The phrase "labour myself to death" is a hyperbolic metaphor. It conveys the idea of working excessively hard to the point of exhaustion or even self-destruction. This figurative expression emphasizes the intensity and negative consequences of overworking oneself.
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Hyperbole.. she exaggerated on the fact that the money ended quickly.
As black as death, as black as night, as black like darkness itself.... um as black as an emo..
As there are so many poems are discussed in The Prophet, the writer limits herself to analyze four poems, they are Love, Death, Freedom, Religion. The various figurative language found in Gibran's poems are methapor, simile, personification and symbolism. Gibran's Love tells that love is love.
Many times. Euripides play Alcestis shows Herakles wrestling and defeating death, saving the life of Alcestis who was fated to die. The Labour of Herakles where he captured Kerberus (three headed dog) from hell and brings it up to the surface of earth, is thought to symbolise a defeat of death.
The metaphor is literary term that is used in the underlined portion of sonnet XVIII Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade.