0 a moment when you suddenly feel that you understand, or suddenly become conscious of, something that is very important to you --
1 a Christian holy day in January (traditionally 6 January in Western Christianity) that celebrates the revelation of the baby Jesus to the world --
Over and above this cyclic structure several epiphanies materialize: spaces for meditation like vast caverns awaiting exploration.
In this discussion, lyric epiphany is explicated along two tracks that crisscross and head toward the same point.
There was no transfiguration of elite identity nor epiphany of brotherhood.
Gissing would not credit the average poor man or woman with the powers of discrimination that could lead to an aesthetic epiphany.
What is the relation between chiasmus and lyric epiphany?
The internal organization of a chiasmic epiphany such as was sketched above is thus more of a breaking-into than a breaking-out-of.
An epiphany, then, is a showing forth of some kind.
That was an eye-opening moment for me, an epiphany for me.