This is a line from a poem, Fame is a Fickle Food. Suggested meaning is that one moment you are famous, next minute you are not. You can be easily passed by, Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate Whose table once a Guest but no A second time is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect And with ironic caw Flap past it To the farmers corn - Men eat of it any die.
Food is the nourishment that sustains life. By stating that fame is a food, the poet suggests that some people use it for nourishment. The real meaning of this metaphor lies in the use of the adjectives 'fickle" to describe the food, fame, and in the use of "shifting" to describe the plate used for serving fame. The poet also extends the metaphor and adds another layer of meaning when she references that crows, unlike man, actually inspect the food of fame, and see it for what it is, and flap past it to fame's opposite, the very basic farmer's corn, while men eat fame and die, suggesting that Nature is wiser than man. Obviously, Emily Dickinson is speaking of spiritual, not physical, death.
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The food would float, as well as the plate
Plate can be a noun and a verb:Put the food on a clean plate. -- nounPlate the food and keep it warm. -- verb
The cost of one plate of food at the restaurant is 15.
Chocolate isn't on the My Food Plate because you are not really supposed to eat it. Less is better.
to put your food on and eat it off the plate with cutlery. thus meaning to hold your food.
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This phrase uses the poetic device of metaphor, comparing fame to food to convey the idea that fame can be unpredictable and temporary, just like the nature of food.
An assiette is a plate of food, a small plate containing the same food item prepared in different ways.