…way in this busy world. He believes that they will indeed find time to enjoy a life of Riley. The phrase has been used as a metaphor for a happy…
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Willy-nilly
…attention and moved on. The phrase used in the title shows the metaphoric representation that no matter you want or not, you have to accept the natural law and fate….
Cut of Your Jib
…metaphor for some commodity in the last line. Example #2 My Cleaner by Maggie Gee Mary absorbs this advice, and smiles. She will enjoy being ruthless with Vanessa’s garden. ‘Trevor,…
Damp Squib
…it breathers new life into an otherwise dead metaphor. Squid intensifies the idea of dampness; and there is, arguably, a strong metaphorical link between dampness and disappointment. This passage talks…
Wind and Window Flower
…Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between the objects that are different. The poet has used an extended metaphor of unattainable love…
The United Fruit Company
…ships”, “Meanwhile Indians are falling” and “a cluster of the dead fruit/thrown down on the dump.” Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made…
Sonnet 19
…ever live young.” Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between objects that are different in nature. The writer has used time as…
You Will Never See Me
…and “I’m going to fight to live.” Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between the objects that are different. The poem shows…
A Sketch for a Modern Love
…description of water is that of thirst,” and “clouds and trees enter/a mirror of water.” Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between…
The African Beggar
…“a heap of verminous rags and matted hair”, “his noiseless, small-poxed face creased in a sneer,” and “lost in the trackless jungle of his pain.” Metaphor: It is a figure…
A Time for Everything
…Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between the objects that are different. The poet has used time as an extended metaphor just…
Africa My Africa
…with red scars,” and “That is your Africa springing up anew.” Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between the objects that are…
Against Love
…used imagery in this poem such as “He feels no raptures which are joys diseas’d”, “And make the shackles which they wear,” and “Your Pleasure which itself destroys.” Metaphor: It…
Alabama Centennial
…“Not all the jails can hold these young black faces”, “Not all the dogs and hoses in Birmingham,” and “In bread lines, at back doors, on chain gangs.” Metaphor: It…
A Sheep Fair
…this poem such as “Which spill small cascades when they shift their stand”, “And every flock long since has bled,” and “Their horns are soft as finger-nails.” Metaphor: It is…
A Woman’s Hands
…“On a crowded bus, I watched a nun’s empty hands,” and “Scattering cooking pots and flowers and rings.” Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison…
10 Best Poems About Death
…The poem presents an extended metaphor of life and death that is the “sandbar” and the ocean as the metaphor of the world lying beyond death and flood which is…
The Tom Cat
…senses. The poem shows the use of imagery such as “He twists and crouches and capers”, “And bares his curved sharp claws” and “Beast from world primeval.” Metaphor: It is…
15 Famous Short Free-Verse Poems
…at the station showing his interest in the Metro. In fact, this presentation is more concerned with human beings than with the Metro. The metaphorical comparison shows that human beings…
20 Best Cliché Examples in Literature
…the change in fuel and color. Yet, this metaphor demonstrates the same hypocrisy and is used in the same sense. Therefore, it stands 11th in our order of ranking. Example…
