this question has relevance to my other question that i asked earlier on, so for those of you who have answered the pervious question, you would know what i'm talking about!
for those of you who haven't answered my other question, i will exaplain it once again!
For english i have to write a sonnet and the topic that i have chosen to write about is snow. I have to create a metaphor that has to do with snow and i was thinking of comparing snow to tears but i was wondering if that was a bit weird...
Could you guys help me think of a metaphor having to do with snow? THANKS SO MUCH!!
p.s i'll give award of 10 points to the person with a great answer!
2007-10-11 21:57:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
This is my metaphor at the moment:
i watch as you cry cascades of pearly white tears..
IT'S SO BAD!!!!! could someone edit it? or is it okay??..
2007-10-11 22:06:24 · update #1
'you' being the earth
2007-10-11 22:12:46 · update #2
There are two types of sonnet - the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean. They both have twelve lines, of ten syllables each. The Shakesperean sonnet consists of three rhymed "quatrains" (with the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef). This is followed by a rhyming couplet (gg).
Here is a suggestion of the first four lines for you:
Clouds cry cascades of pearly tears, (a)
A sea of white, blurring all certainty. (b)
Snow falls in my heart after all these years, (a)
Softly erasing you out of memory. (b)
I like the alliteration of "clouds cry cascades", but I am not sure about rhyming "memory" and "certainty".
Hope that is of some help.
2007-10-12 04:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by Andrew W 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you read some old vampire tales the color white seems to be associated with innocence. In the romantics, it's associated with the sublime. Think Moby Dick and try looking up "Design" by Robert Frost. There are soo many metaphors you can make with tears and snow. Try not looking for what they have in common but what they don't and use that to put them together-
i.e., how Chester Himes can turn a band playing jazz into a description on how a community exists.
2007-10-12 05:16:50 · answer #2 · answered by hikimamma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the idea of the tears is brilliant. Tears disappear just like the fresh fallen snow. When writing poetry and you seize on such an idea, don't even ask yourself it it is a bit weird. Stay focused on you original idea and let the creativity come out without regard for what others may think. Poetry is the purest expression of feelings in words. So just just you feelings flow, soar, etc and you will then find a part of yourself there on the paper and be marvelled at what you have just created.
2007-10-12 05:06:03 · answer #3 · answered by flax9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
snow can appear 'blue' from the sky
perhaps, tears and the expression feeling 'blue' (sad)
you can write something with that in mind.
i have a picture in mind of walking through the snowy streets of Istanbul on a cold winter december day. tears falling like icicles and disappearing into the snow. reflections of the blue sky on the snow ....shades of blue and gray and white all around and a lonely figure leaving lonely tracks and blue tears like pearls in the snow ...so many tears to be gathered that could be made into a necklace that would circle the earth.
2007-10-12 05:18:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snow . . . you could compare snow to beauty. As in, "Beauty is only skin deep." Because, you know, if you were to sweep all the beautiful snow on a cold winter's day off, say, a field , the view wouldn't be so pretty anymore. Behind the snow, everything would be barren, wasteful, lifeless . . . am I going too far here?
2007-10-12 05:03:10 · answer #5 · answered by Mnemosyne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would compare snow to soft white feathers floating gently to the ground to blanket it and make everything beautiful, pristine and white.
or
like icing sugar sprinkling down onto a cake
or like sparkling glitter, beautifying the earth
2007-10-12 05:12:08 · answer #6 · answered by MinaF 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tears are not weird. Snow is usually associated with death and rebirth, but tears are a new take. I say go for it!
2007-10-12 05:01:14 · answer #7 · answered by Orla C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Snow is not permanent, it melts. It's cold but beautiful.
It is the futile resistance from a new lover.
2007-10-12 05:05:03 · answer #8 · answered by Ed S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the melting snow rolled down the window pane as if tears were flowing down a babies cheek.
2007-10-12 05:21:06 · answer #9 · answered by java 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for me snow is not like tears, it is soft and gentle, rain is more like tears relentless and unwelcome.
What does snow say to you? Is it welcome, playful or harsh and chilling, unyielding? The metaphor has to mean something to work, decide what YOUR snow is like, and therein lies your metaphor...
2007-10-12 05:03:54 · answer #10 · answered by Em 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋