Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Extended Metaphor


Definition
a metaphor that is spread out through the poem or stanza

Example

A lifetime is a day,
death is sleep;
a lifetime is a year,
death is winter..

Life is a struggle,
dying is losing
a contest against
an adversary..

Significant
There are poems that they made to be a metaphor and we need to know extended metaphor and how it used in order to understand what author is saying

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