Question

Which line from "I Am Offering this Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca is an example of simile?"

Answer 1

In the poem 'I Am Offering this Poem', by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the examples of smilies are:

1) Paragraph one, lines three through six:

Keep it like a warm coat

when winter comes to cover you,

or like a pair of thick socks

the cold cannot bite through.

2) Paragraph two, lines two through five:

So it is a pot full of yellow corn

to warm your belly in winter,

it is a scarf for your head, to wear

over your hair, to tie up around your face.

3) Paragraph three, lines three through six:

In the wilderness life becomes when mature;

and in the corner of your drawer,

tucked away like a cabin or hogan

in dense trees, come knocking.