I need to write a list of metaphors a.s.a.p but I want some original ones, can anyone help?
2006-12-11 02:18:47 · 10 answers · asked by Sarah 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Thanks guys, my mind went blank but I have got some now and am just going through some Chaucer and other poetry.
Thanks for your help
2006-12-11 02:39:33 · update #1
You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear
2006-12-11 02:27:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
or here is some eg :
1) The winds were ocean waves, thrashing against the trees limbs.The gales remained thereafter, only ceasing when the sun went down. Their waves clashed brilliantly with the water beneath, bringing foam and dying leaves to the shore.
2) Metaphor is present in written language back to the earliest surviving writings. From the Epic of Gilgamesh (one of the oldest Sumerian texts):
My friend, the swift mule, fleet wild *** of the mountain, panther of the wilderness, after we joined together and went up into the mountain, fought the Bull of Heaven and killed it, and overwhelmed Humbaba, who lived in the Cedar Forest, now what is this sleep that has seized you? - (Trans. Kovacs, 1989)
3) The first is a poem from ancient Egypt:
Death is before me today
Like the sky when it clears
Like a man's wish to see home after numberless years of captivity
(Trans. Merwin, 1968) , very original ,maybe y should search here ,it is very interesting http://tscp.open.ac.uk/t185/html/resources/r2history.htm
4)maybe it helps you: http://somniloquy.org/archive/v2/poetry/statements.php?item=11
2006-12-11 05:34:10 · answer #2 · answered by woman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Poetry!
I refuse to help you with that one other than to say...
"If you want to feed a man... Do not give him a fish, teach him to fish."
Learn that lesson now and avoid years of misery later on! You will never realize your own ability... until you commit to the work YOU need to do to be able to say that YOUR metaphors, were better than anything, anyone else could come up with. Including Shakespeare~
If you ever need help in recognizing the metaphor in poetry or prose... Let me know. THAT I will help you with!
Hint Hint... Most of the Greatest metaphors in classic literature come from those who wrote Satire... Read; Alexander Pope, John Gay, Oscar Wilde, and the incomparable... CHAUCER! You will find more instances of metaphor in the Canterbury tales than anywhere else in one place in classic literature!
2006-12-11 02:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think some folk appear to be confused over what metaphors are; go with clare and phonic.
The cotton wool clouds skated over the patchwork of fields covering Mother Earth.
2006-12-11 10:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by Purple 8 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the trees were whispering to her, the wind blowing some words, the moon spreading and forming letter to words, and the stars turning those words into metahphors and the metaphors flying to your papers...
2006-12-11 03:07:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
They have their exits and their entrances; — (William Shakespeare, As You Like It,)
2006-12-11 02:21:26 · answer #6 · answered by Liggy Lee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never metaphor I didn't like.
2006-12-11 02:31:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Stubborn stains!
A steady rhythm
I'm comfortable with my decision
The point being...
Political platform
I'm dying to meet her
2006-12-11 02:26:03 · answer #8 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Be like water, put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a tea pot it becomes the teapot -- Bruce Lee.
Kill a bird with two stones.--?
2006-12-11 02:34:32 · answer #9 · answered by Arkane Steelblade 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"He stepped up to the plate and grabbed the bull by the horns".
2006-12-11 02:35:51 · answer #10 · answered by b97st 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋