Emotion in Poetry - Using Metaphor

Poetry is emotion, but we have to create emotions with words, creating the image of the call. To increase the excitement of any writing, you can use poetic devices. Using metaphors is one way to strengthen (intensify, vigorize expression, support, vitalize, justify, stimulate, enhance)emotion.




The metaphor poetry is a comparison between two things differently to say the least. Eample would "love is the honey is poured into a life." Love is not honey, but the comparison creates an impression of sweetness to add life.

***metaphor poem 1***

Fifth of July - By: John



My family is an expired firecracker
set off by the blowtorch of divorce. We lay
scattered in many directions.
My father is the wick, badly burnt
but still glowing softly.
My mother is the blackened paper fluttering down,
blowing this way and that, unsure where to land.
My sister is the fallen, colorful parachute,
lying in a tangled knot, unable to see the beauty she
holds.
My brother is the fresh, untouched powder that
was protected from the flame. And I,
I am the singed, outside papers, curled away
from everything, silently cursing
the blowtorch.

***metaphor poem 2***

For i am a Metaphor - By: Kottrell Johnson



'For i am a Metaphor


For i am free as a bird


wiser than wise itself


brighter than a sun gama ray


FOR I AM A METAPHOR


for i love like the word


think like einstein


dream like Martin


FOR I AM A METAPHOR


For i smell like success


Achieve like achievers


and soar like number 23


FOR I AM A METAPHOR


for i deliver like mailmen


determine like focus


and prosper like underdogs


FOR I......AM.....A METAPHOR'

***metaphor poem 3***

THE POEM IS A METAPHOR - by Shalom Freedman



The Poem is a Metaphor
It means ‘the world’
It means ‘all that there is’
It means ‘the soul’
It means ‘our deepest feeling’.


The Poem is a Metaphor
It is more than what it just appears to be
It takes on a life of its own
It says more than it can define itself as


The Poem is a Metaphor
And it itself does not understand
Where it began and how it will end
And whether or not
It should always be rewritten.


The Poem is a Metaphor
And we too are metaphors
That will vanish one day
When all the real Poems
Pretend to still be here.

***metaphor poem 4***

ALL THE POEMS ARE A METAPHOR - by Shalom Freedman



All the poems are a metaphor
For another poem
I cannot write
And this poem too
However incomparable
Does not say
What the real Poem is.


God knows
Only God knows.