| All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances | |
| William Shakespeare Metaphors are important in poetry because it gives poetry more meaning and it gives a more descriptive meaning of things. Without metaphors writing in poetry would just be plain and boring and not a lot of people would enjoy reading poetry. Also, without metaphors you couldn't compare one thing with another thing which would make reading poetry boring. Ex: She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show. |
| Epitaph on a Tyrant | ||
| by W. H. Auden | ||
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. | ||
| Man and Wife | ||
| by Robert Lowell | ||
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed; the rising sun in war paint dyes us red; in broad daylight her gilded bed-posts shine, abandoned, almost Dionysian. At last the trees are green on Marlborough Street, blossoms on our magnolia ignite the morning with their murderous five days' white. All night I've held your hand, as if you had a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad— its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye— and dragged me home alive. . . .Oh my Petite, clearest of all God's creatures, still all air and nerve: you were in your twenties, and I, once hand on glass and heart in mouth, outdrank the Rahvs in the heat of Greenwich Village, fainting at your feet— too boiled and shy and poker-faced to make a pass, while the shrill verve of your invective scorched the traditional South. Now twelve years later, you turn your back. Sleepless, you hold your pillow to your hollows like a child; your old-fashioned tirade— loving, rapid, merciless— breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head. | ||
Love
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
-Sri Chinmoy
