Short and Short (1995) claim that the 1988 debate over the handling of the fires in Yellowstone National Park was one of competing archetypal metaphors. The opposition to the government's policy on allowing certain fires to take their course used metaphors of death while those who supported the policy used metaphors of rebirth. The article overtly states that is using a metaphorical analysis of the piece, but there is a distinct feeling of Kenneth Burke's notion of god and demon terms stemming from the dueling metaphors. The article attempts to show how the language of the two groups emphasize...

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