Life Metaphors

that the perpetrators should be "locked up," without thought to whether that meant a prison or a

The strongest usage of metaphor in this poem is in the first stanza in the line “write their knees with necessary scratches”. While scratches cannot be written, words can, so this insinuates that children learn with nature, and that despite its fading presence in today’s urban structures, it is a necessary learning tool for children. The poet has used this metaphor to remind the reader of their childhood, and how important it is to not just learn from the confines of a classroom, but in the world outside. This leads to create a sense of guilt in the reader for allowing such significant part of a child’s growing up to disintegrate into its concrete surroundings. Although a positive statement within itself, this metaphor brings upon a negative

Proverbs is a book based on metaphor. It is packed with word-pictures of universal truths. Throughout Proverbs, wisdom is anthropomorphized as a woman. As early as Proverbs 1:20, wisdom is compared to a woman who shouts in the streets, chastising fools and scoffers. Proverbs 31 provides a detailed metaphor of feminine wisdom in the context of a family and a community.

In, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, there is a quote “they all carried ghosts.”, this metaphor can represent the many things the soldiers carried. Every soldier carries things that represent memories or security. In war, the soldiers are confronted with death every day so they carry things that remind them of people, memories, or hope.

Both John Doone and Emily Dickinson wrote amazing poems. “Valediction Forbidding Mourning” and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” come together to give the reader two different ideas of death in itself. There are also extended metaphors in each poem. The amazing part of both of these poems, is that you can get so much out of it from reading it over and over again. There are so many meanings to so many words inside these poems.

In Daniel Rigney, Professor Emeritus of sociology at St. Mary's University, and author of The Metaphorical Society: An Invitation to Social Theory (2001) discusses eight metaphors in relation to societies, claiming that these metaphors have formed “... from particular people, in particular places and times, and are inevitably shaped by the interests and the historical circumstances of their makers” (p.6). These eight metaphors include society as a biological system, as a machine, as a war, as a legal order, as a marketplace, as a game, as a theater, and as a discourse.

“A sentence I would never forget, no matter how long I lived. ‘Hey Nate said he saw a pic of you naked yesterday’” (Brown 57). In the Jennifer Brown’s novel Thousand Words, the main character, Ashleigh, has a hard time parting with her boyfriend, Kaleb, because he is going off to college. In fright of someone ‘stealing’ her boyfriend in college she sends him a nude photo, so he won't forget her. Then after a hard break up the photo gets sent out and goes viral, reaching the attention of school peers, police, teachers, and her parents. Ashleigh’s life turned upside down and ends up alone, but she finds Mack while in community service serving as a fresh chance for friendship for Ashleigh. In Brown’s novel Thousands Words, the author uses a variety

I am sitting on an inflatable tube in the middle of Lake Michigan. I’m not sure how I got here. Suddenly, I hear “Lean back!”; I’m not sure why, but I just lean back. I’m so scared, I don’t know what is happening. I see a big white boat with blue dual canvas start to go fast, and I feel a jerk. I don’t know what’s happening! Is the tube sinking? Am I going to drown? What is happening? The boat is now going fast, and I’m told I can sit up now. I am kneeling on the tube for five seconds, and I say “OH MY GOSH! This is so fun!!!”. I can’t believe that I have never done this before. I was being pulled so fast that the wind dried my face from the splashing fishy water. There is a wave and my knees fly almost a foot off of the tube! This is the

“High school is hell” is a dominant metaphor in Josh Whedon's cult television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Many people only view metaphor as the rich language of rhetorical discourse, plus elaborate classical prose and poetry. However, metaphor is more often found in everyday language when further investigated. It is imperative to understand the spirit of metaphor. When one kind of thing, idea, or concept is known or experienced in another way, this is metaphor. Authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their book Metaphors We Live By exploring how metaphor is used in everyday language. The authors define and explain the conduit metaphor and how it relates to context. In addition, Lakoff and Johnson describe total metaphorical structuring and argue why they cannot be that way.

I find myself using the metaphor “don’t judge a book by its covers” very often. The nature of my job requires me to interact with new people every day. Working in luxury retail, although, I treat every customer equally, I must evaluate which customer is worth my time consulting with in order to meet my commission. It is easy to gravitate towards customers dressed in designer but I must remind myself to never reach a conclusion by how the customer is dressed. The metaphor helps me reevaluate which customer I should approach.

The author of this argument makes a considerable number of unsubstantiated assumptions about Woven baskets, and based on these assumptions he/she comes up with fallacious conclusions.

“Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether its getting married, or whether it’s flying in space.”-Chris Hadfield

“Before We Mothernaked Fall” Dylan Thomas Diction and Metaphor Mothernaked - naked Staked - marked or claimed Gushes - stream In “Before We Mothernaked Fall,” Dylan Thomas uses specific diction to create an earthly mood as well as metaphors to create meaning to the earthly lives of the mothernaked. Thomas gets down to the essential reason of human existence on the earth and conveys the message that through conflicts and trials, humans must struggle and gain what they can call theirs. Thomas starts off the poem by stating “Before we mothernaked fall,” meaning that there is something humans must do before they leave this mortal world (1). He calls upon the conflicts and problems that humans have “Upon the land of gold or oil Between the

Average readers intend to read and analyze a poem with a mentality in which all the poems must have a metaphor and a deeper meaning that were initially implanted in the poem. Analyzing a traditional poem seem difficult because of those ancient vocabularies, metaphors, and its wording, but, by carefully reading of those poems, the reader eventually would get the theme of the poem. On the contrary, while reading a simple structured poem, the readers always bring the notion of “a simple poem has a deepest thought and metaphor that build into it”, which contradict author’s purpose. For example, “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams in fact has always been misinterpreted by the readers because of the words, such as “plums”, “Forgive me”

Poems can be the most sensitive and amazing piece of writing out there. Poems are used with metaphors, similes, symbols and allegories. This helps enhance the meaning and helps make a fresh understanding of it. People may see these poems differently from one another. You have to have an open mind at all times to fully comprehend what the author is trying to say. I have chosen three poems out of many, to show you the different metaphors and how they enhance the poem. The poems are “What Work Is” by Philip Levine, “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy and “Lady in the Pink Mustang” by Louise Erdrich.