Metaphor

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Metaphor

A Metaphor is comparing two unlike things. An Example: I am as slow as a turtle.
She is as fast as a cheetah.

Robert Herrick has included metaphor's in his poem "A Meditation for his Mistress." Here's an example:

You are a lovely July-flower,
Yet one rude wind or ruffling shower
Will force you hence, and in an hour

This shows that she is a very beautiful girl that is compared to a July-Flower. Very different from them all, but can be a handful at times. She can also turn at the poet really fast if anything goes wrong and isn't scared to show it.

Finally the final touch of his final thought

"You are the queen all flowers among;"

He relies to her on being the one who runs others into what needs to be done. It seems like she is the Queen of flowers and always designs the others to be in its place She touches anything and she still holds her crown.

Another great metaphor from Emily Dickinson's from "A Book" is

"There is no frigate like a book"

To take us lands away,

This shows a boat being compared to a book. A boat floats to its sight and as I read a book it always takes me to a different place with its amazing ideas and story images. It's as it makes me part of the story and always has it's up and downs just as a boat in the sea when its passing great waves.

"Beclouded" The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A traveling flake of snow

This is another type of metaphor from Dylan Thomas from "THE FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER"

"The lips of time leech to the fountain head;"
Lips : Every person has Time : Is an idea This seems like time leeches [grabs] onto the fountain with his lips in order to drink water but in between time it still drips. "How time has ticked a heaven round the stars."
This explains how as time travels it goes on forever. Its as if everyone dies in order to get to a certain place and that's beyond the cloud's and stars.

This poem "l(a" By, e e cummings demonstrate the understanding of an metaphor by showing how it is put and described. A leaf falls alone and doesn't grab on to another to land on its own. Its a metaphor because it compare's it self to an emotion, loneliness.