Autobiography an example of a metaphor

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ne approaches the subject of autobiography in two different ways, each with its own contributions to make. The first conceives of autobiography as a genre or mode, while the second accepts that all self-expression or self-representation is autobiography. The recognition that anything a person says or writes tells us something essential about the speaker or writer is a commonplace of romanticism, which extends it to all areas of discourse, so that not only literature but philosophy and science are seen as self-expression. "When the torrent sweeps the man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised," says Stevenson, "if the scream is sometimes a theory." Nietzsche, who was fascinated and appalled by the screams of moralists, theologians, and metaphysicians, urged that "every great philosophy so far has been . . . the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and uncon 10 example of metaphor sentences!