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Metaphor and SimileRich in metaphor and simile and captivating in theme, this group of poems is ideal for helping students identify and analyze the comparisons which make poetry so meaningful. When my students find a metaphor or simile, they write a complete sentence to explain the comparison. The structure I teach them looks like the following: __________ and _________ are being compared because ___________________. An example taken from "Dream Deferred" would end up saying, "A raisin in the sun and a dream deferred are being compared because both lose the life which makes them motivational." “Dream Deferred”
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
“Fire and Ice”
Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry—
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll—
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul |
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