…an implied comparison is made between objects that are different in nature. The poet used the metaphor of the ocean, comparing her skin to its still waters. Simile: It is…
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Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild
…and Carpenter Bee used to depend on each other? Simile: It is a figure of speech for direct comparison to understand the meanings of a thing being compared. For example,…
Riprap
…between objects different in nature. The poet used different implicit metaphors such as words compared to things and planets that are straying like animals. Simile: It is a figure of…
Meditation at Lagunitas
…nature. The poet used the metaphor of the word that he equates with a sorrowful poem such as “a word is elegy.” Simile: It is a figure of speech for…
Rain
…made between objects different in nature. The poet used the metaphor solitude as if it is a man and the companion of the poet. Simile: It is a direct comparison…
As from a Quiver of Arrows
…make contact? What if this other man too is dead? Or alive, but doesn’t want to remember, is human? Is it okay to be human, and fall away Simile: It…
Apologia
…grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day? Simile: It is an indirect comparison to clarify the meanings of one…
Mark 12:31
…in ‘namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these’. Simile – The verse is also a good example of simile as…
A Lake and a Fairy Boat
…Simile: It is a figure of speech that shows a direct comparison of things for meanings. Thomas Hood used a simile comparing oriental pearls with gossamers dipped in milk. Symbolism:…
The Old Maid
…hungry. Simile: It is a figure of speech that shows a direct comparison of things to clarify meanings. Sara Teasdale has used the simple simile of comparing eyes “Her eyes…
The Power of the Dog
…or love posed as a man that cannot live. Kipling has used other metaphors, such as the dog is a body as well as a spirit that goes away. Simile:…
Virtue
…and sky” and a rose. Simile: It is a figure of speech that shows a direct comparison of things for meanings. Herbert has used a simile in the last stanza…
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
…has the power to select or deselect figures to accompany her. Simile: It is a figure of speech that shows a direct comparison of things to clarify meanings. Dickinson has…
Sonnet 145
…of metaphor as the mercy that seems to be a human being. Simile: It means a direct comparison of things to understand one thing after it is compared to another….
How I Discovered Poetry
…Simile: It is a figure of speech that shows a direct comparison of things for meanings. Miss Nelson has used a simile borrowing it from Wordsworth “I wandered lonely as…
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
…However, he uses the simile like the breaking the leg of a horse which seems quite odd as he wants to tell her that after stuffing her dummy, he would…
On The Sonnet
…of sentences and phrases such as “By ear industrious, and attention meet” which has three words in each phrase. Simile: The poem shows the use of similes such as “like…
Lana Turner Has Collapsed
…the sky” and “was acting exactly like the sky.” Simile: It is a direct comparison of two things to make readers understand the thing being compared, such as “to meet…
For Whom the Bell Tolls
…of Europe. Then he compares the same with a simile like that of a peninsula or a farmhouse, saying when the bells ring, they ring for a man and not…
Trees
…hair” which shows as if the trees are humans that can perform certain actions. Simile: Simile is used to compare an object or person with something else to make meanings…
