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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SIMILES Matches Found: 36 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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