a poem of 2 stanzas with four lines each which contains metaphors
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The Sun Rising
Metaphysical poet John Donne was well known for his use of metaphors. In this famous work "The Sun Rising," the speaker tells the sun that nothing else is as important in the world as him and his lover.
"She is all states, and all princes, I.
Nothing else is.
Princes do but play us; compared to this,
All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy."
In one of the most evocative metaphors in literature Donne is claiming that his lover is like every country in the world, and he every ruler - nothing else exists outside of them. Their love is so strong that they are the world and all else is fake.
Sonnet 18/Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
If there exists a poet who truly mastered the metaphor, that would be William Shakespeare. His poetical works and dramas all make extensive use of metaphors.
"Sonnet 18," also known as "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day," is an extended analogy between the speaker's lover and the fairness of the summer.
"Thy eternal summer shall not fade."
Shakespeare is communicating that the speaker's lover will remain beautiful and vital, though perhaps only in memory, captured in this rhyming couplet:
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
Love, like summer, is a life-giving force, but both come to an end. However, the poet's love and lover will live on as long as people read this poem.
When I Have Fears
The romantic poet John Keats suffered great loss in his life. His father died in an accident and he lost his mother and brother to tuberculosis. When he began displaying signs of tuberculosis himself at 22, he wrote "When I Have Fears," a poem rich with metaphors concerning life and death.
"Before high piled books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain."
In the example above, Keats employs a double metaphor. Writing poetry is implicitly compared with reaping and sowing, and that reaping and sowing represents the emptiness of a life unfulfilled creatively.
Keats' metaphor extends throughout the poem, the image of books of poetry unwritten stacked on the shelves of the imagination leading to an inexorable conclusion:
"On the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink."
The end of his life is represented here as a shore where he stands and meditates until he forgets the sorrows of his too-short existence.
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