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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: METAPHOR Matches Found: 77 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE COMPARISON, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let dirty streets be paved with flow'ry green Last Line: "ere smoky towns shall vie with rural plains, / and city cockneys rival country swains" Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes A NEW SONG OF NEW SIMILES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My passion is as mustard strong Last Line: And mute as any fish. Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Words; Vocabulary; Similes A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes A RIPPLE OF DEER, A METAMORPHOSIS OF BEAR, A METAPHOR, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of mountains repeatedly Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes A SIMILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear thomas, did'st thou never pop / thy head into a tin-man's shop? Last Line: Always aspiring, always low. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Metaphor; Mythology; Similes A SORCERER BIDS FAREWELL TO SEEM, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm through with this grand looking-glass hotel Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near no name, colorado Last Line: I knew I'd lost it. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes ADDING TO A UNIFIED THEORY, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: Borges said there are only three metaphors Last Line: In a vase, admired. Even though it's dead Subject(s): Metaphor AND AS IN ALICE, by MARY JO BANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alice cannot be in the poem, she says, because Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes BROKEN FLOWER, by JEFFERY BEAM Poem Source First Line: That a broken flower Last Line: Has no stem only %confirms it Subject(s): Flowers; Metaphor BUTTER, by STEFANIE MARLIS Poem Source First Line: Go figure. The day lilies' yellow deepens gloriously Last Line: It may be years later that you learn enough and soften Subject(s): Butter; Life; Metaphor CLASSIC OF POETRY: 138. 'BARRED GATE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Behind barred gates Last Line: Taking wife, who needs %the royal daughter of song? Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship; Fishing And Fishermen; Metaphor CLASSIC OF POETRY: 24, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah, how splendid Last Line: And the grandchild of king ping Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship; Fishing And Fishermen; Metaphor COMING HOME LATE FROM THE TAVERN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But no, the death of a glorious mouse Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Metaphor; Mice; Nature; Poetry And Poets CROTONS, by BOB RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Supposed an obsessive compulsive Last Line: Because like you uncle I dance even after the stormy reception %alone in the litter of everyone's fl Subject(s): Metaphor; Solitude FAILURE OF SIMILES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: In one image of the camps, the snow sifts down Last Line: Toward heaven -- as tongues blister in the flames Subject(s): Metaphor FASTING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning now, yet silently I stand Last Line: And it is day! Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Lent; Love; Metaphor; Night; Selflessness; Sleep; Weariness; Similes; Bedtime; Fatigue FORGETFULNESS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgetfulness is like a song Last Line: I can remember much forgetfulness. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Metaphor; Similes FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 7, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: On the morning of november 12, 1975, I received an envelope Last Line: Attached to my key ring, and people mistake it for a good luck %charm Subject(s): Metaphor; Poetry And Poets HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes HOGWASH, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue that mothered such a metaphor Last Line: Daisies, daisies, in a field of daisies? Subject(s): Language; Metaphor HOW WILL MY SOUL GET FREE, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT Poem Source First Line: Will she burst through my body Last Line: Like some erratic anti-moth toward a secret %flower Subject(s): Freedom; Metaphor; Soul ILIAD: JOVE'S COLD-SHARPE JAVELINES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And as in winter time when jove his cold-sharpe Last Line: To shew their sharpnesse Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: MEN LIKE LEAVES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou so explore Last Line: Man's leavie issue Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: PARIS AND THE COURSER, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now was paris come Last Line: Of loftie pergamus came forth Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE BEES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when of frequent bees Last Line: Troopt to these princes and the court along th'unmeasur'd shore Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE CLOUDS, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Their ground they stil mde good Last Line: So firmely stood the greeks, nor fled for all the ilians' ayd Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE THE SEA, THE TROJANS LIKE EWES, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And as when the west-wind's flawes the sea thrusts Last Line: But shew'd mixt tongs from many a land of men cald to their aid Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: THE TWO AJAXES COMPARED TO OXEN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oileus by his brother's side stood close and would not Last Line: So toughly stood these to their taske and made their worke %as even Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War IN AND OUT OF THE PINE-WOOD; A SIMILE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the pine-wood all looked bright and clear Last Line: Our stars are carried out, and vanish not! Subject(s): Metaphor; Stars; Similes IN CONSTRAINTS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: I relish talk about the transcendent imagination Last Line: But still with us within us Subject(s): Bodies; Metaphor IN THE SHADE OF A METAPHOR, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Metaphor; Daisies IN THE ZOO; A TOUR WITH COMMENTS, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: And these %these are scavenger birds Last Line: The kitchen of our pattering feet Subject(s): Metaphor; Zoos IRRELEVANT VIOLET, by CATHRYN HANKLA Poem Source First Line: Velvet purple petals like the darkened room where he is tug- Last Line: You. I want to know that the you I know will always be there Subject(s): Change; Metaphor; Sickness LIMITS OF METAPHOR, by RICK CANNON Poem Source First Line: Not failure exactly Last Line: Not even moonlight could unlock his face to me Subject(s): Metaphor LOVE IN JUNE, by MARY GENEVIEVE MANAHAN Poem Text First Line: Love is a rose that blooms Last Line: Ere we too pass away. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Roses; Similes LOVE'S SIMILITUDES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In vernal grove a poplar slim Last Line: Perfection's perfected in thee! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Love; Metaphor; Nature; Trees; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I love you more than Last Line: The light love you and love you Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Similes MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I love you more than Last Line: The light love you and love you Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor METAPHOR AS DEGENERATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is a man white as marble Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes METAPHOR AS DEGENERATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is a man white as marble Last Line: And the memorial mosses hang their green %upon it, as it flows ahead Subject(s): Metaphor METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING, by JILL WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: She's one cookie short of a dozen Last Line: Expressed in a quaint metaphor Subject(s): Metaphor; Nostalgia MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel; Similes MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel Last Line: As if they were his ripe prize vegetables Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel NERVOUS METAPHORS, by DEBRA BRUCE Poem Source First Line: Why would my oncologist put on Last Line: Its implications hurrying my way? Subject(s): Metaphor NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism ODD METAPHORS, by WILLIAM LINVILLE Poem Source First Line: Our massive piracy Last Line: Do they remember viet nam? Subject(s): Metaphor; Social Protest ONLY SIGNS?, by LUCIANO ERBA Poem Source First Line: On the crucifix that appeared to me in a dream Last Line: (or the proud cantab in his world of words)? Subject(s): Metaphor QUATORZAINS: 6. A FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lover is a slender, glowing urn Last Line: Deep-caverned in a fringed lake of blue. Subject(s): Love; Metaphor; Vases; Similes QUATORZAINS: 7. ANOTHER FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a moon-tinted primrose, with a well Last Line: And sheath their minds in scorn and self-conceit. Subject(s): Birds; Fairies; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Elves; Similes RIPPLE OF DEER, A METAMORPHOSIS OF BEAR, A METAPHOR, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of mountains repeatedly Last Line: We call the great bear. Then I envy the bear Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Metaphor SACRUM: METAPHOR, by KIRSTEN WASSON Poem Source First Line: All bones have lived elsewhere Last Line: To believe that nature might %embody us Subject(s): Metaphor SIMILE; ON OUR WANT OF SILVER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when of old, some sorceress threw Last Line: Our silver will appear again Subject(s): Metaphor; Silver SIMILIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As wet as a fish - as dry as a bone Subject(s): Language;metaphor; Words;vocabulary;similes SONG: DU BIST WIE EINE BLUME, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair art thou as a flower Last Line: As fair and pure as now. Subject(s): God; Love; Metaphor; Similes STILL LIFE WITH MOVEMENT, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: A pear, representing innocence Last Line: Which to take first for himself Subject(s): Life; Metaphor THE BANDRUIDH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My robe is of green Last Line: The sweet sound of the south! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Metaphor; Nature; Spring; Similes THE CHASE OF THE METAPHOR, by RICHARD BLACKMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stones and all the elements with thee Last Line: Job. Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear Last Line: And peace. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue THE CRITICAL SPECIMEN: 1. A SIMILE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So on maeotis' marsh (where reeds and rushes) Last Line: And swells his bloated corps to largest size. Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes THE HOMING BEE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are belted with gold, little brotherb of mine Last Line: For others, your gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Metaphor; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs; Similes THE LAST MAN: METAPHOR OF RAIN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An amorous cloud Last Line: Lets down her rustling hair over the sun. Subject(s): Metaphor; Rain; Similes THE ROSE AND THE THORN, by MARY FRANCES WARD Poem Text First Line: Love is like a charming rose Last Line: When you grasp it tightly. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Metaphor; Roses; Similes THE THOUGHT BENEATH SO SLIGHT A FILM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or mists – the apennine Subject(s): Metaphor THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wood-doves are singing along the perkiomen Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wood-doves are singing along the perkiomen Last Line: The fisherman might be the single man %in whose breast, the dove, alighting, would grow still Subject(s): Metaphor TO DELIA: 39, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read in my face a volume of despairs Last Line: The temple where her name was honored still. Subject(s): Despair; Helen Of Troy; Love; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Similes TWO SONGS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sex, as they harshly call it Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Metaphor; Similes TWO SONGS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sex, as they harshly call it Last Line: We murmur the first moonwords: %spasibo. Thanks. O.K Subject(s): Desire; Erotic Love; Metaphor VASE THAT IS MARRIAGE, by ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA Poem Source First Line: The vase is the painted figure Last Line: Put some flowers in, or not lack the desire? Subject(s): Marriage; Metaphor; Vases VERY LIKE A WHALE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes VERY LIKE A WHALE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Last Line: What I mean by too much metaphor and simile Subject(s): Metaphor VIGILS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are talking about metaphor Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Similes YOUTH, by SALLIE GAFFNEY Poem Text First Line: Youth is like a child in a swing Last Line: To the lower regions of despair. Subject(s): Metaphor; Youth; Similes ZUGZWANG AMORE, by BARBARA HAMBY Poem Source First Line: Although a chess term, the german word zugzwang or move Last Line: As if her rage-splintered heart will never mend Subject(s): Chess; Love; Metaphor |
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