alright, i have a project due on may 7th. i have to find five different poems (showing examples of alliterations, metaphors or extended metaphors, similies, onomotapoeias, and imagery.) i have all of them picked out, except my onomotapoetic and metaphoric poems.. i can use song lyrics also. after i pick out the poems/lyrics, i need to anaylze the poem. i know how to do that... i'm just looking for the two poems.. could you please help me before may 1st?? thanks!

Here you go Renee:

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This site defines the term then gives examples. Since you are able to use song lyrics, Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am a Rock" immediately comes to mind as an example of an extended metaphor. Here's a link to the lyrics:

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Les



Post Edited (04-27-04 19:29)

This gives a lot of alliteration.

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they want to analysis this poem A RED,RED ROSE by robert burns
and describ the speaker
explain the figures of speech

Okay, who do you think is speaking? A man? A woman? Who is being talked to? What are they saying in plain English?

pam

I'm guessing English is not shatha's first language. The speaker seems to be a man, perhaps a soldier, sailor, or other traveller/adventurer. His is also likely not telling the whole truth in his attempts to woo the maiden.


O MY Luve 's like a red, red rose

Figure of speech - simile - my love is LIKE a rose

That 's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve 's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune!
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry:

Till the seas have gone dry - hyperbole - exaggeration/overstatement

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve,
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.

And this poem isn't in English either, Burns wrote in Lallands (not sure of the correct spelling there), aka Lowland Scots.

He could be lying? I am shocked, shocked.

pam