are fed by peaceful harvests figure of speech
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A transferred epithet is a figure of speech where an adjective or epithet describing a noun is transferred from the noun it is meant to describe to another noun in the sentence. In the lines, They, too, aware of sun and air and water, Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war's long winter starv'd
A transferred epithet is a figure of speech where an adjective or epithet describing a noun is transferred from the noun it is meant to describe to another noun in the sentence. In the lines, They, too, aware of sun and air and water, Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war's long winter starv'd.
This phrase/expression 'are fed by peaceful harvests' is from the poem, No Men Are Foreign by James Kirkup. This expression means people living in all parts of the world are also fed by the crops grown and harvested in peaceful times.