It is important to have metaphors in poetry because the reader can then see what the poet means and feels. 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 passage, the writer says that in love a person cannot say any thing to his or her partner clearly whether he or she loves the other partner on not. They just know one thing and that is they are madly in love.
The writer says it is very difficult to write about any place which they have recently chosen for residing. A metaphor has the power to call up impressive visual images. For example, the writer says that she hasn't been there for three winters, meaning to say three years and continues with that she hasn't seen the ducks leave in winter and returning in spring.
According to the author, Hemmingway while in Paris wrote, that he could write about Michigan while sitting in Paris as though he is in Michigan and when he is in Michigan he could write about Paris as he is in Paris.
Further, in continuation, the writer tells that our senses are totally useless as they can only sense it but only work in our bodies through their experience. A metaphor has the power to call up impressive visual images. In the passage, the writer compares our body with garbage heaps from which we gain experience and further illustrates that the decomposition is just like a life achievement for us giving us knowledge as the time passes by, so the reader now gets a visual picture of what comparison the writers gives to our bodies with garbage heaps. He does this so we verbally see what that would look like.
The writer says that while going through the notes of the students, she doesn't look the pages or the writing, but only the toils through which the students would have gone to write the notes, how much time, energy and brain they would have used for its composition.
