Metaphor

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Metaphor

Metaphor is the comparison of two unlike things. Simile, personification, hyperbole, animism, and analogy are more specific types of metaphors. Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. The difference with Simile is that it uses like or as to compare two things. A lot of these metaphors are used for creative writing. Metaphors help the reader visualize what the author is trying to describe in his words. For example, 'He was brave as a lion' shows that the character was really brave as a lion would be when in danger. The writer compared a human to an animal to help the ready understand the unknown.

Metaphors are usually in poetry to explain and illuminate emotions and feelings that could not to described in ordinary language. In the short poem "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" by Dylan Thomas uses a lot of figurative language to describe the comparison nature and humanity. This poem describes a relationship between the force of nature and life that drives the poet/protagonist. As the poem goes on the metaphor gets more into how nature and humanity have a common bond, a very close relationship between the both. The poet uses the word "green" which is usually what you think of when you hear the word nature. Its also refers to the human life as well as the plant life.

In the poem "Meditation for his mistress" Robert Herrick compares a woman to a flower to symbolize how beautiful she is. She is the queen of all flowers, he says. A woman is really not a flower, but the metaphor he uses, you can tell that she is a beautiful and unique. In his eye her flaws is what makes her perfect for him.

In Emily Dickson's poem there is a lot of metaphors. They describe many things in metaphoric ways. The first poem "Hope is the thing with feathers" describe how having hope feels and what it makes you do to be hopeful. She compare hope to feathers to show that hope is what makes you fly, in other words believe in your self. The second poem "Success is counted sweetest " talks about success and how it changes your life. She mention that some people who are near success feel how good it feels. She compared the comprehension of nectar is the same understanding of how success feels. Her third poem "I took power in my hand" uses deep metaphors. She compare herself to David, from a biblical story to characterized that she was the only one who controlled her life, her actions.

The final poem I'm going to discuss is different from the rest. Its writing differently to show another story. The poem is called "la" and its written vertically. The shape of this poem makes a number 1. When you put the poem horizontally it makes up a sentence. It says '1(aleaffalls)oneliness'. If you take whats inside the parenthesis it says, 'a leaf falls'and the outside says; Loneliness. If you put it all together you see that the author describes his emotion has to being lonely. The shape the poem makes when its vertically also shows loneliness, as in 1 only person all by himself. Just like a leaf falls, it falls alone. This poem had a lot of metaphors that were deep inside of it.

Metaphors are in my every day life, I'm always against things i cant really fight. I struggle to get what i want therefore i push myself through it all. Like the article says we battle with life and that's with everyone. Nothing is handed to you, you have to work for it.