By Adeel Hassan | The New York Times

He rises 11 feet high, cast in bronze, carved in metaphor. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. frequently used metaphor as an orator, and a new statue of him in Winter Park does the same, with shoes, left arm and head all slightly enlarged.

His body language suggests that he is at ease, holding a thick book in one hand and waving with the other. Even his blazer and pants have a relaxed quality to them, with realistic-looking wrinkles.

Winter Park, a suburb of Orlando, last month celebrated the unveiling of the $500,000 installation, which was to be the crowning glory of its 23-acre Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

But King’s likeness is being contested here, following a pattern of earlier memorials of him, including the one on the National Mall in Washi

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