…my limbs.” The use of the metaphor of blood as a circuit highlights the passion and the intensity of love. “I interrogate the air,” she states, and smells her lover’s…
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Mother and Child
…is used as a metaphor for a mother, and the dewdrop as a newborn child that comes into bosom of a mother. The mother expresses her happiness on the arrival…
She Walks in Beauty
…walk of that lady with a dark and clear night which also means that her footsteps are not heard. Metaphor: There are two metaphors in the poem, in lines eleven…
Parable
…which means “comparison.” It is like a succinct narrative, or a universal truth that uses symbolism, simile, and metaphor, to demonstrate the moral lesson intended to be taught. Like analogy,…
Overstatement
…beauty by using light exaggeration. Here, the playwright uses metaphor to get this job done by comparing Juliet to a burning light that gives light to torches, and like a…
Explication
…dead body from narrow road by pushing it into the canyon. The poet introduces the metaphor of the journey by comparing the road with life and journey. We also get…
10 Songs with Meaningful Personification
…that is “wild and free” is personification and a metaphor. Madonna wants listeners to think of her as a type of natural woman who hangs out on La Isla Bonita….
Explicatory Essay
…profound and less sectarian than the others, has a quality which returns through the Elizabethan period to the early Italians. It is difficult to find any precise use of metaphor,…
The Quality of Mercy is Not Strain’d
…to Christian idea of salvation Irony: This phrase has irony of situation, because it is used where there is often no mercy. Metaphor: Here, mercy is shown as endless rain….
Style
…the readers. He uses metaphor to compare smoke to “incense,” or an “Icarian bird.” He also describes “star-veiling” and “shadowy” and let the readers imagine smoke. Function of Style A…
