Question

What's the metaphor in the poem "Have ever seen?"​

Answer 1

• The speaker opens with the question that the entire poem revolves around: "Who has seen the wind?" We know that this question (and first line) is also the poem's title, which is a pretty conventional way to start a poem.
• Remember, we're dealing with the Victorian era here, when poets weren't looking to be all experimental and modern. They followed the rules, in other words, and used popular meters and forms quite often. Check out "Form and Meter" for more.
• So who has seen the wind? No one. The speaker is also assuming in line 2 that there's no way we would have ever seen the wind either. She's kind of calling our bluff, just in case we felt like being cheeky.
• We notice that the speaker is also using first-person point of view in line 2. So she's speaking to us from a personal perspective, which makes us feel like she's talking directly to us.
• In other words, the speaker is kind of telling us what's what, similar to the way a parent might explain things to their kids.
• Notice we have a sort of clear meter in both lines: a headless iambic trimeter, which is just fancy (gruesome) talk for an unstressed/stressed syllabic pattern that has a total of three stressed syllables in each line. It's "headless" because it's missing that initial unstressed syllable in the beginning of the line. So it goes a little somethin' like this: DAdumDAdumDA.
• Why the fancy meter? We talk more about that in "Form and Meter," but for now we can assume that such a catchy sound pattern helps make nursery rhymes like this stick. It's easy to predict the sound (and sometimes the words) that will come next.

Answer 2

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