Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...

Figurative language, such as similes, metaphors ... to find literary or historical references in poems. Pay attention to allusions to famous figures and important world events, and think about ...

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In On the Move, the memoir he published in his final year whose title was borrowed from Gunn’s most famous poem, Sacks wrote ... By 1974, it could yield a swift train of metaphors: The idea of ...

His path crossed once, briefly, with another famous inmate ... Van der Hoogt prize for Dutch literature (1972). "His poems are rich in metaphors and are a complex mixture of references to Buddhism ...

By way of mixing metaphors, the difference between delusional ... s potential in its proximity to New York City. Williams was famous also for bringing the HMS Rose, a 179-foot, three-masted ...

Turned to painting - His path crossed once, briefly, with another famous inmate. Nelson Mandela was for ... and the Van der Hoogt prize for Dutch literature (1972). "His poems are rich in metaphors ...