I need help finding good examples of Extended Metaphors... I'm currently in the process of writing a Multi-Genre Research Paper for my English class and I have to have an example for each genre I chose to write in. I have already begun writing my own extended metaphor, but I have to turn in mine along with my example tomorrow. I know I waited until the last minute, but please, I've been looking all week. Can someone give me anything besides Oh Captain! My Captain!?
oh and also something besides Robert Burns Ballad of John Barleycorn or Emily Dickensons I love to see it lap the miles because those are two of the examples my teacher used in class.
There are several examples here:
[www.poeticbyway.com] />
William Blake's, The Lamb, and The Tiger are both metaphorical.
Les
Post Edited (11-04-04 23:43)
Oh thank you so much, Les. I thought I was going to have to turn an example in late. I think you just saved my life, or maybe just my GPA. Thank you again
-Claire
Hey in the poem "Fax X" by Gwyneth Lewis
I need to find a sustained metaphor to use as a main idea in making a book cover and blurb (i.e the front and back of a book)...
The poem is:
Today set sail like a cruising ship
taking us with it, so we waved goodbye
to the selves that we were yesterday
and left them ashore like a memory
while we launched out on the open sea,
were travelling! The breeze grew stiff
so we grabbed the railings, tasted the surf
as the sky came towards us, equator noon
a place to pass us, while the tropics of tea
swung over us and straight on by
as tiem kept sailing and we hung on,
admiring the vistas of being away
while the shadows died down from the flames of day
and we coasted around a long headland of sky
and into night's port while, out in the bay
tomorrow called out like a ringing buoy
I need to find a sustained metaphor ...
Uh, perhaps:
... a cruising ship
i DON'T GET EXTENDED METOPHORES! THEY MAKE ME SICK! WHEN MY COLLAGE TEACHER AT YALE UNIVERSITY SAID " WHAT ARE EXTENDED METOPHORS?" I FETL SO EMBARRESED WHEN I SAID "I DON'T KNOW!"
anotmas, read John Barleycorn, by Robert Burns 27 times, until you understand what metaphor means. Meanwhile, read the definition here:
[www.poeticbyway.com] />
les
Dorrianne Laux's poem "The Shipfitter's Wife"
is one of the best extended metaphor poems
I know of. And it's sexy, so fun to analyze.
Lisa
Dorrianne Laux's poem "The Shipfitter's Wife"
I loved him most
when he came home from work,
his fingers still curled from fitting pipe,
his denim shirt ringed with sweat
and smelling of salt, the drying weeds
of the ocean. I would go to him where he sat
on the edge of the bed, his forehead
anointed with grease, his cracked hands
jammed between his thighs, and unlace
the steel-toed boots, stroke his ankles,
his calves, the pads and bones of his feet.
Then I'd open his clothes and take
the whole day inside me -- the ship's
gray sides, the miles of copper pipe,
the voice of the first man clanging
off the hull's silver ribs, spark of lead
kissing metal, the clamp, the winch,
the white fire of the torch, the whistle
and the long drive home.
ummmmmmm yes---
quite extended.
Thanks for findng that poem Hugh, I do love it.
xoxo,
Lisa
Is that an extended metaphor or are you just glad to see me?
pam
LOL
A Loaf of Poetry
by Naoshi Koriyama
you mix
the dough
of experience
with
the yeast
of inspiration
and knead it well
with love
and pound it
with all your might
and then
leave it
until
it puffs out big
with its own inner force
and then
knead it again
and
shape it
into a round form
and bake it
in the oven
of your heart
Les
LOL again
"pound it with all your might"
ok I will from now on
mix
the dough
of experience
Until the divorce. lol
Les
Well, as we are into risque extended metaphors, how about 'She being brand new' by e.e.cummings?
[plagiarist.com]
The formatting is a little too tricky for me to post the poem itself.
Ian
Is this one an extended metaphor, or perhaps an extended simile, if there is such a thing?
City Pigeons
Old people are like birds:
the same words flock to the mind's eye
in speaking of them.
They perch in public places,
scratch for the world's crumbs, seek
its shiny trifles --
easily ruffled
are quick to realight, alert
and nodding,
cheeky occupants of plazas,
monuments' companions, supplicants
in lime-specked groves
to dirty mysteries.
-- Helen Chasin
I NEED AN EXTENDED METAPHOR BY 2MORROW!!
Janese, there are dozens of examples of metaphors here on our classical poets, segment.
"I love to see it lap the miles" by Emily Dickinson is a good example.
There are many others. Read anything by Percy Bysshe Shelly.
Les
Post Edited (01-31-05 19:31)
ok...........