How is a poem an extended metaphor?

Answer 1

You use metaphors to decipher the poem.

A metaphor is a comparison of two (like or unlike) things using only "is" to connect them.

For example: "Love is a fire, burning bright."

or "Night is quiet I desire and need."

An extended metaphor poem takes a metaphor and compares it throughout the poem, like:

"This night is the comfort,

Of a hug from mother to child.

It is the warmth and security,

Of love and compassion so tender.

This night is the nightmare,

The one that started it all.

It is what I fear most,

And the only thing I find serenity in."

Answer 2

A poem can be an extended metaphor, but it is not always an extended metaphor. For example, the poem "Constantly Risking Absurdity" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti contains an extended metaphor, wherein the author compares the poet to a tightrope walker.

Constantly Risking Absurdity

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Constantly risking absurdity

and death

whenever he performs

above the heads

of his audience

the poet like an acrobat

climbs on rime

to a high wire of his own making

and balancing on eyebeams

above a sea of faces

paces his way

to the other side of the day

performing entrachats

and sleight-of-foot tricks

and other high theatrics

and all without mistaking

any thing

for what it may not be

For he's the super realist

who must perforce perceive

taut truth

before the taking of each stance or step

in his supposed advance

toward that still higher perch

where Beauty stands and waits

with gravity

to start her death-defying leap

And he

a little charleychaplin man

who may or may not catch

her fair eternal form

spreadeagled in the empty air

of existence

Answer 3

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Answer 4

CHICAGOHOG Butcher for the World,

Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,

Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;

Stormy, husky, brawling,

City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I

have seen your painted women under the gas lamps

luring the farm boys.

And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it

is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to

kill again.

And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the

faces of women and children I have seen the marks

of wanton hunger.

And having answered so I turn once more to those who

sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer

and say to them:

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing

so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on

job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the

little soft cities;

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning

as a savage pitted against the wilderness,

Bareheaded,

Shoveling,

Wrecking,

Planning,

Building, breaking, rebuilding,

Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with

white teeth,

Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young

man laughs,

Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has

never lost a battle,

Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.

and under his ribs the heart of the people,

Laughing!

Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of

Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog

Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with

Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

Or you could visit this page:

http://voorheestsd.schoolwires.com/cms/lib/NJ01000237/Centricity/Domain/2766/Metaphor%20Poems.pdf

It has a few extended metaphor short poems (:

Answer 5

Extended metaphors can be used at any point in a poem but it really depends on personal preference and they usually help to make a poem more vivid and give the poem a little more tangibility by likening it to a situation in which a listener can relate.

Answer 6

An extended metaphor is when one compares something to something else for several sentences. Authors like William Shakespeare often use extended metaphors in their writing.

Answer 7

mending wall