Things used by Elvis Presley...

I am, of course, referring to none other than Elvis Presley.

And metaphor keeps the mind shaking, rattling and rolling, long after Elvis has left the building.

Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from Romeo and Juliet Juliet is the sun.

Elvis had two or three manspaces, which is pretty unique because he lived with both his wife and his mother in Graceland.

In this, Elvis is following Aristotle's classic definition of metaphor as the process of giving the thing a name that belongs to something else.

The mind is a plastic snow dome, the most beautiful, most interesting, and most itself, when, as Elvis put it, it's all shook up.

Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says.

Meanwhile, a campaign to ban Israeli products has been gaining strength in the United States and Europe. And then there are the many performers who following the lead of Brian Eno, Elvis Costello, Vanessa Paradis, Roger Waters, and others wonder out loud whether or not to appear in occupied Palestine.