Using metaphors — saying one thing is like another — is a way of finding unexpected connections in the world, poet Allan Wolf ...

Figures of speech are used every day in our lives. Here is what a metaphor is and examples of how it is used.

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

Metaphor of the Floating Life By Song Lin, translated by Dong Li On the twelve identical bridges not a single one without endless streams of traffic. The evening bell tolled, birds retrieved their ...

Here at Science Friday, we’re big fans of metaphors. They can make complicated scientific concepts easier to understand, for both non-experts and scientists themselves. For example, “the big bang” ...

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The metaphor worked for me, vivid and compelling. The critical point Early in 1849 the British poet Matthew Arnold published a poem entitled “The Forsaken Merman ”, in which the merman, the king of ...

Poems are made for the express purpose of re-figuring the world. They have no other reason for being. In them, metaphors are completely at home. In poems, metaphors subtly materialize or ...