A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

What metaphors are used in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce?

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When Stephen says in the Portrait that he will become instead "a priest of the eternal imagination," his metaphor is meaningful, but he is talking about something else than the rite of priestly consecration. This metaphor should not be pushed too far in Stephen's case, and in Joyce's own it is one that has tended to obscure the two vocations between which he made an election; he himself chose not altar but art. It is a choice that haunted him most of his life.

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