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

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

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 ...

What is a metaphor? How and why would you use it? Bitesize explains with examples from ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy for 3rd and 4th level (S2-S4) learners.

Aristotle believed metaphor was a “token of genius” because it showed that a poet had “an eye for resemblances.” When T.S. Eliot tells us as he does in the opening lines of … ...

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), whose “Spring and All” appeared as the Sun’s Poem of the Day on May 2, famously defined a poem as “a small (or large) machine made of words.” It’s a strange ...

His poem “ Huswifery ” takes for its conceit, or central metaphor, the process of cloth-making. The poem expends many of its eighteen lines in naming the parts and actions of a spinning wheel and a ...

Time passes quickly at my age. It’s hard to believe that this is my 50th Delray Sun column. The third was published three years ago and was ironically titled, “Irma would make a great p… ...

The art of landscape is by definition poetic and symbolical. We respond to pictures of field and forest, mountain and sea because the varied moods of nature somehow seem to echo our innermost thoug… ...

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