What is the ivory tower?
ivory tower is used to represent a person or has relaxed from the fight and dispute of the world. It often applies to intellectuals and university professors, or simply to an extremely naive, in a negative sense. The basic concept is that one can theoretize about the world everything that wishes from the protective walls of college, but that live in it, without the benefit of the ivory, gives one more realistic feeling of how philosophy or art is paid. Solomon appreciated the neck of his beloved comparison with the "ivory tower" at 7: 4. Homer uses a similar term in his Odyssey and discusses the fatal nature of those who come from the ivory gate. The ivory can indicate who is naive, Homer. On the other hand, Solomon's use is associated with purity and beauty. Alfred de Vignny to Victor Hugo. Saint Beuve felt that De Vignny had some naivety and removal from the world that Hugo was without. Hugo waded in his mud while De Vigny "left before noon" in his Tur d'vOIRE .
It is clear that ivory is strong, rare and clean. Although now, ivory often holds the connotation of poaching of elephants, it would not be a big problem for Saint Beuve. The ivory was associated with the value and not with illegal ivory trade. The cleanliness of ivory, and thus the ivory tower also expresses a certain quality of youth or virgin and again the term naivety. The one who hides in the ivory tower is obviously the one who lacks experience.
In the present use, the ivory tower represents a state of removal from the world. The person in the ivory tower has not touched the reality of life, and therefore has a beveled or innocent perspective. Promoting from the ivory tower has little merit because they are not realistic.
One looks, for example, on many celebrities that seem to still look young and thin. If they ask why it is not easy for others to stay thin or beautiful, average noA linen that does not have access to things such as trained dietologists, personal trainers and plastic surgeons often take it with a great inconvenience. The attitude towards the personal appearance of celebrity is from the ivory tower of wealth and privileges limited to a couple.