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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 .


Essays Related to Metaphors in Poems

1. John Donne And Metaphors

One good example of Donne's use of absurd metaphors is in the poem entitled "The Flea". ... Regardless of this, Donne takes seemingly absurd metaphors; such as flea the is sex, the lovers, the trinity, etc., and makes them an entertaining poem of one mans plight to have intercourse. ... Another example of Donne effectively using unrelated objects as metaphors is in the poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning". ... The metaphor in this poem that I find especially engaging comes in line 25 when Donne compares the two lovers to a compass. ... In this poem metaphors of attack and assaul...

  • Word Count: 1414
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Poetic Metaphors of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath's 1960 poem, "Metaphors," is a perplexing puzzle in which the reader must pay attention to its appropriate voice/sound, impeccable word choice and metaphorical language to find that Plath is actually exploring an ambivalence about pregnancy. ... "Metaphors" states from the beginning that this poem itself is a riddle, and then uses several different metaphors as clues to help the reader solve it. ... She uses these metaphors trying to find understanding in how she feels about what's going on with her and her body. ... When we as readers recognize this ...

  • Word Count: 1396
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3. Poem Essay

Apollinaire does this through shape and metaphor. The poem's unusual shape lets us know what the poem is about even before we start to read it. ... This line, like most lines in the poem, uses metaphor to describe sound. ... This poem also uses metaphor to draw a picture. ... This metaphor adds action and maybe a little fear to the sad rain. ...

  • Word Count: 360
  • Approx Pages: 1
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Beware: Do Not Read This Poem

However, Ishmael Reed's poem, "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem," is not your typical piece of literature. ... Thus leading to the conclusion that this poem is actually a huge metaphor for the way poetry acts on its readers. In the beginning, the mirror was the metaphor for poetry in the sense that it is and should be reflective, and the woman was the metaphor for the readers of poetry. ... The speakers ending line is, "this poem is the reader and the reader is the poem" (Reed). ... Reed has many metaphors within metaphors throughout his poem, which could be perceived d...

  • Word Count: 820
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Has Bibliography

5. Unveiling What Is Behind Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"

According to Webster's New American Edition Dictionary a metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implied comparison between things which are not literally alike ("metaphor"). ... Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" consists entirely of what its title suggests: metaphors. ... With the knowledge of what the metaphors depict, we can explore below the surface of the poem and discover what lies much deeper. ... Not only is the poem nine lines long, but each of those lines consist of nine syllables. ... This pattern, if observed, is one of the more significant hints to the reader of ...

  • Word Count: 1440
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

6. Plath's Powerful use of Imagery and Metaphors

Plath's Powerful use of Imagery and Metaphors In the poem "Daddy,"" the speaker, Sylvia Plath confesses her true feelings about her deceased father. ... Plath uses imagery heavily in her poem to express her struggles in life. She casts her father into different metaphors throughout the poem. ... In this poem Plath often uses her father as a metaphor for good, the good in people, the good in life. ... The metaphor of Nazism is compared to her father because she relates them as being a form of authoritarian figures, "freedom for the archetypal feminine figure in the poem, is freedo...

  • Word Count: 2858
  • Approx Pages: 11
  • Grade Level: High School

7. POEMS

The poem is written in the mood of contentment and bliss. ... His style is rather hyperbolic and this tends to reinforce the concept of social coercion in the poem. ... The images and metaphors used help to establish that this poem is about a young child who is an orphan and is being forced to deal with the pressures of child labor. ... Wordsworth's poems are in conflict between nature and humanity. ... He has a unique way of choosing his words in a way that they are metaphors of a secret message. ...

  • Word Count: 1464
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

8. Most of the time authors use the poem for telling their prob

Most of the time authors use the poem for telling their problems and tensions. Also the author use the theme and literature to define their poems. ... The metaphor in Miss Rosie and Mother to Son are also same which is describes Miss Rosie and Mother to Son. ... The differences In these two poems are author used metaphor for Miss Rosie and Extended Metaphor for Mother to Son. ... The Genre of these two poems are showing the feeling of author. ...

  • Word Count: 546
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

9. The Images of Irony and Metaphor

Irony and Metaphor are literary language that plays very important roles in short stories and poetries. ... A metaphor makes a comparison of two almost unlike things using connective words. ... Without metaphors is like poetry missing a main ingredient in the main 3 course. Poems use abstractions to express feelings that are difficult to express with concrete meanings. ... Although some metaphors are dreamlike, they still contain a message behind them. ...

  • Word Count: 632
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

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