Metaphors are often used in poetry, literature, songs and everyday speech to make the tone more illustrative or expressive. Metaphor examples in songs include: "Life is a highway." ...

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

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 ...

Extended metaphors are metaphors that run throughout a piece of work. For example, in the poem Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy, the speaker says 'I give you an onion.' The onion is a metaphor for the ...

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 ...

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 … ...

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… ...

A metaphor simply states that one thing is another thing. Metaphors are used in poetry, literature and anytime someone wants to add some variation to their language. Example: Barry is a couch potato.