Metaphor

People have been writing in metaphor since the birth of mankind. Metaphor is a way to get around censorship as well as to help us see truths that we may not be able to face if they were stated plainly. It is a way to accentuate beauty as well as pain through this medium of the unstated comparison. When you are reading an appropriate metaphor you are immediately drawn between the truth of the comparison that is being alluded to. The ability to understand metaphoric language opens the key to poetry of tremendous beauty

Metaphor By Family Friend Poems / CC BY 3.0

Grab this! For Website, Blog
Click in the text box below and copy the code

<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;width:336px;height:280px;overflow:auto;font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana; background-color: #e6e6fa; border: ridge 4px #e6e6fa;text-align:center;">
  <div style="background:url(http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/images/bg_head.gif) repeat-x; text-align: center; padding: 5px; margin 0 auto;height:20px;width:97%;"><a style="color:#03579E; text-decoration:none" href="http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/other/metaphor-poems.asp">Metaphor</a></div>
  <div style="text-align:justify;width:95%;padding:5px 10px;font-size:14px;">People have been writing in metaphor since the birth of mankind. Metaphor is a way to get around censorship as well as to help us see truths that we may not be able to face if they were stated plainly. It is a way to accentuate beauty as well as pain through this medium of the unstated comparison. When you are reading an appropriate metaphor you are immediately drawn between the truth of the comparison that is being alluded to. The ability to understand metaphoric language opens the key  to poetry of tremendous beauty<div style="font-size:12px;text-align:center;color:#03579E;"><a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/other/metaphor-poems.asp" style="text-decoration:none;color:#03579E"> Metaphor</a> By <a href="http://www.familyfriendpoems.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:#03579E">Family Friend Poems</a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/" style="text-decoration:none;color:#03579E">CC BY 3.0</a></div></div>
</div>

For Facebook, Email, Forums
Click in the text box below and copy the code

Link

HTML Link

Terms and Conditions

Family Friend Poems licenses the contents of this page only under a Creative Commons Attribution License. This means we grant you the necessary permissions to use Metaphor by Family Friend Poems for whatever you would like, on condition that you attribute it to Family Friend Poems.
Internet Use - We grant you the necesssary permission to post this work anywhere on the Internet ONLY on the condition that the Attribution, Metaphor by Family Friend Poems, is a working clickable dofollow link back to our website. If you are posting it on the internet you must make sure that the link works!
This is all the HTML you need:
<a href="http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/other/metaphor-poems.asp">Metaphor by Family Friend Poems</a>
"Metaphor" is the name of the work. Attribution or BY means that you include the words "by Family Friend Poems"
For more information please see our Frequently asked questions or Contact us

Top of page

The copyright of all poems on this website belong to the individual authors.
All other content on this website is Copyright 2006 - 2013 by Family Friend Poems