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hi please...find SIMILES OR METAPHORS if there are any in this poem

He seemed to know the harbour,
So leisurely he swam;
His fin,
Like a piece of sheet-iron,
Three-cornered,
And with knife-edge,
Stirred not a bubble
As it moved
With its base-line on the water.

His body was tubular
And tapered
And smoke-blue,
And as he passed the wharf
He turned,
And snapped at a flat-fish
That was dead and floating.
And I saw the flash of a white throat,
And a double row of white teeth,
And eyes of metallic grey,
Hard and narrow and slit.

Then out of the harbour,
With that three-cornered fin
Shearing without a bubble the water
Lithely,
Leisurely,
He swam --
That strange fish,
Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,
Part vulture, part wolf,
Part neither -- for his blood was cold.


Thank you for your help

2007-03-25 11:55:27 · 2 answers · asked by Hey! 1 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

2 answers

Simile: Like a piece of sheet-iron
Metaphor: His body was tubular
Metaphor: Part vulture, part wolf,

2007-03-25 12:14:12 · answer #1 · answered by John B 7 · 0 0

simile = a comparison of two things -- usually uses the word like or as

metaphor = comparison of two things using a form of the verb to be

Metaphor is often confused with simile, the difference being that the metaphor draws a parallel between concepts, while the simile points to poetic similarities.

2007-03-25 23:57:27 · answer #2 · answered by Angie S 3 · 0 0

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