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Metaphors in Poems

            It is important to have metaphors in poetry because the reader can then see what the poet .
             A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things that have something in .
             common. A metaphor helps the writer create a verbal picture that helps the reader to see ideas .
             more clearly. It helps the writer convey his or feeling more strongly. Typically, a metaphor .
             asserts that one thing is another or suggests that the one acts like the other in some way. .
             In the poem, Swan Song, the author calls the mast of the gillnetter a "crazy metronome .
             cutting the air." A metronome helps a musician keep exact tempo by the clicking metal arm that .
             moves back and forth. This helps the reader see how the gillnetter looks in the water. The title of .
             the poem supports the idea of a repeated metaphor related to music. A swan is known to sing just .
             before it dies. It is also been said that a swan song is the farewell appearance of a performer who .
             is retiring. The man on the rock can be seen and understood as the audience, watching the two .
             fisherman perform their last farewell. .
             A metaphor has the power to call up impressive visual images. In the poem, T-Bar, the .
             poet describes the mountain scene by calling it "haemophilic snow." A haemophilic is a person .
             who bleeds easy causing them to look pale or white. So the reader now gets a visual picture of .
             what the mountain looks like. The poet describes the skiers that are riding up the t-bar to .
             "Somnambulists." A Somnambulist is a sleepwalker. The poet illustrates the skiers as a bride and .
             groom. He does this so we verbally see what that would look like. .
             A metaphor has the power to stir feelings. The Ice-Floes is another poem where the .
             author uses metaphor. He describes the seal hunters racing across the ice after the baby seals as .
             travelling with "the speed of hounds on a caribou's track" By doing this it adds to the intensity of .
             the situation or to engage our emotions. The author illustrates "the night had swallowed all .


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... different interpretations of the same story it is easy to see which one is the better interpretation. This quote is Perrine disagreeing with the idea of having multiple interpretations of poems because it exaggerates the uniqueness and unlikeliness of one of the interpretations. When the I focused on the word poetry I could still piece together Perrine's argument that there are a limited amount ... that area." (Perrine 6). This quote helped me realize that Perrine's argument is applicable to everything because what he is saying in this quote is not only in regards to poetry. Before this...

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4. John Donne And Metaphors

... metaphors can greatly influence the effectiveness of an author's message, when used correctly. John Donne turns this tool into an art form in his poetry as he weaves absurd relationships between two or more seemingly unrelated ideas. Not only does this make his poems much more entertaining but it also helps to express his ideas in ... a very vivid manner. This helps the reader to relate to and more fully understand the complexity of the feelings being expressed. One good example of Donne's use of absurd metaphors ... is in the poem entitled "The Flea". In this poem the flea is used in a...

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5. Analyzing the use of the theme of Childhood & Adolescence in

... light on the tragedy of the death of his friends while he was a boy. As far as the tone of these four poems is concerned, all are very serious poems and that can be sensed in the under layer of the poems. In the "The Chimney Sweeper," William Blake uses irony. The tone seems carefree and the poem flows smoothly like a nursery rhyme, however the ... . It also is a bit envious, because he seems to wish slightly that he too could spend eternity playing games on the schoolyard. Blake and Hayden make use of similes and metaphors in their poems. In "The Chimney Sweeper," he describes his frien...

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7. Plath's Powerful use of Imagery and Metaphors

... changes into childlike dialect; this is evident when the speaker continually uses the word "daddy- and also repeats herself often. Plath uses imagery heavily in her poem to express her struggles in life. She casts her father into different metaphors throughout the poem. Her images of her father compared him to God, a Nazi, the Devil, and a vampire. Plath describes her feelings about men ... and death and how they are related. Plath's use of imagery and the style in her poems have intrigued the thoughts of many critics. Her carefully chosen ... images are analyzed by M.D. Uroff, in his ...

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