objective correlative
English
Noun
objective correlative (plural objective correlatives)
- A physical representation or manifestation of an abstract concept; especially, a symbolic artistic representation of a particular emotion, feeling etc.
- 2007, Mat Snow, The Guardian, 2 Feb 2007:
- Neil Young invented strung-out country-rock in 1975 with his album Tonight's the Night, its bittersweet desolation finding an objective correlative in the setting of America's south-western desert states.
- 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 46:
- Eleven years later, in 586, after another senseless revolt, Jerusalem was destroyed and Yahweh's temple, his objective correlative on earth, was burned to the ground.
- 2007, Mat Snow, The Guardian, 2 Feb 2007:
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