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Metaphor
 A metaphor is used in many poems to explain and describe emotions, feelings, relationships, and other things that are not easily described in ordinary language. Metaphors are also used to help understand the unknown. A specific can be a simile. The difference the use of the words "like" or "as". A metaphor assumes an understanding without using the word "like." There are different types of metaphors. There are similes which compares two unlike things using "like or "as." Personification is also used in poems. Personification is using an example of a human comparing them to a animal or object. For example "the wind blows in my ear as if someone was whispering to me. "Another type of metaphor is anthropomorphism which is giving God or God's a human example form. Another type of metaphor is hyperbole which is when someone is using exaggeration or over statement. For example "I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant". Another different type of metaphor is called parable which is using old myths or stories to compare to today. For example using phrases from the Bible. A fable is also a type of metaphor a fable is using traditional stories about animals or humans or even objects in your poem. Animism is a type of metaphor that uses religious spiritual ideas in human and animals. Analogy is comparing two things that have the same relationship.For example "hot is to cold as fire is to ice". There are many poems that use different types of metaphors. For instance in Dylan Thomas' poem "The Forces That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"he refers to his age as the roots of the tree. He's saying that the seasons have past and the roots seem to have change just has his life somehow changed to. thomas also compares the forces of water with the force of his bloodstream." Dylan Thomas is also using personification in this poem he is comparing him self to objects or nature. He is also using hyperbole for example when he talks about love " love drips and gathers , but the fallen blood shall calm her sores."
Emily Dickinson is also a poet. She uses a lot of personification in her poems. For instance the poem , "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" she is saying that hope is just like a bird with feathers. Hope is an idea but she's making it seem like a bird. On the next line of the poem she says, "That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, she is trying to explain that once we have hope in our soul we feel good for a while and it feels like it's never going to go away. Although hope doesn't speak and sings she feels as though it does. Emily also points out in her poem that while the bird that is singing as "hope" it can be abashed by a big storm and the bird will eventually leave and stop singing. Meaning that the hope she once felt can be replaced by a feel of hopelessness with anything that happens to her. And once that happens the warm feeling that she had is now gone. Emily Dickinson wrote another poem that also has a lot of personification this poem is called "A Book"
There is no frigate like a book
This is a poem from e e cummings. This is described as a metaphoric poem because its describing that when the leaf falls it falls alone and its bound to die just like loneliness. We are all lonely at some point and we are also going die one day so its comparing both the leaf and the loneliness. l(a
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e e cummings A metaphor to me means imagination, It means to take your mind other than in the ordinary take it somewhere deeper. Metaphors are used a lot in life. We just don't understand them much because we don't use them as much. Adults and kids use metaphors all the time. For example when someone is going through a rough time they say I am facing a battle and don't know if ill win. The person doesn't really mean there in war they mean there going through problems and don't know if they can face there problems or solve them. Also people have sayings that they use to sometimes exaggerate situations and make something clear. They say things like life's like a roller coaster it has its ups and downs , which really means that life can sometimes be good with you but it could be bad. Sometimes life gives you big problems and at the same time it gives you blessings.
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Robert Herrick is another poet who uses many types of metaphors. In his his poem "A meditation for his mistress"
he uses flowers to describe the beauty of a woman. For example he says " You are a lovely July-flower, Yet one rude wind or ruffling shower
Will force you hence, and in an hour." In this phrase he is saying that the woman seems so strong and beautiful but that any little
problem can come and make her feel weak and vulnerable in a moment.He compares the woman to the flower because they are almost so much alike
because a flower or a rose look so strong and beautiful but if a strong wind or heavy rain comes it will turn weaker.
In this poem the first stanza talks about a "frigate" meaning the boats they used to use back in the days before the boats became modernized
how its better to have a book that can take u from place to place just like the boat would to. A book can take you many places and show the descriptive
part of many places. On the next stanza she talks about how a horse cant even do the same as a book. The horse can take you places but its not as good as
the book would. When he says there's "nor any courser like a page of prancing poetry" she is trying to describe the courser bird that is fast and lasts for
a long time to the any book, unlike going somewhere else physically a book will last you more than the trip because eventually you would have to leave
the place you are in and go back home. A book on the other hand will always be there you can open and read it when ever you want to. Another advantage you
have on traveling with a book is that a trip will be expensive and you will sped money on other things which on a book you wont and with a book you can go
any where you want to. In the phrase " How frugal is the chariot, That bears a human soul!" Emily is trying to say that even the poorest person can find a
book to travel metaphorically speaking with out spending the amount of money you spend on a real trip.