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Success is Counted Sweetest

…know the definition of victory. This stanza contributes to the overall theme of success and its absence as an impetus to achieve it by presenting the metaphor of battlefield and…

A La Mode

…comfort. Therefore, it is a metaphor for the comfort that the clothes provide to the people. Example #2: “Although various music styles have gone out of fashion following the 21st…

A Bad Penny Always Turns Up

…by a popular novelist of the 18th century, Henry Fielding. Fielding explained that ‘A bad penny always turns up’ has been taken from Greek and that it is a metaphor….

For Whom the Bell Tolls

…a metaphor of a continent for mankind, saying that not everyone is an island and that they are part of this continent which could be a small clod like that…

Live Your Life

…give thanks for the food and for the joy of living” and “Sing your death song and die like a hero going home..” Metaphor: It is a figure of speech…

Matthew 25:23

…in ‘enter thou into the joy of thy lord‘. Extended Metaphor – The entire verse is a perfect example of an extended metaphor. Here Jesus is using a parable of…

The Author to Her Book

…it widened. Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between objects that are different in nature. The poet has used the extended metaphor

The Road Not Taken

metaphors in the poem, like road, fork in the road and yellowwoods. The road in the poem is the metaphor for life, while the fork on the road metaphorically represents…

The Haunted Palace

…throne reflects the highest rank of the lost king. As the plot deepens, the palace, with all its riches and beauties, is the metaphor for the human head. The person…

Good Timber

…of life.” Major Themes in “Good Timber”: Competition in life, effort, and hard work are three major thematic strands of this poem. By using the extended metaphor of a tree,…

A Poison Tree

…of Adam, Eve and the Garden of Eden. Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between the objects different in nature. There is…

Elm

…continues to reverberate in the last line, making it clear that the speaker has presented her knowledge about love and has nothing to state further. The extended metaphor of elm…

Matthew 5:9

…good example of an extended metaphor. The entire verse is a metaphor for inner peace. Parallelism – The verse Matthew 5:9 is parallel to the verse Luke 6:35, also from…

Siren Song

…different. The entire poem is an extended metaphor for a supernatural theme that attracted sailors to their death. The second metaphor is the deceptive physical attraction. Allusion: Allusion is a…

Old Ironsides

…ceremonies, extolling its exploits in metaphorical language, showing if it has been a goddess of battles. This description of the grandeur of the ship is not without the heroics of…

Ephesians 6:12

…Consonance – The verse also has good use of consonance. For example, the sounds of /l/, /s/, /r/, and /n/ are used continuously through the entire verse. Metaphor – The…

Much Madness is Divinest Sense

…which an implied comparison is made between different objects. The poem is a metaphor for individual yet contradicting thoughts. The line ‘Demur – you’re straightway dangerous’ is a metaphor for…