And yet poetry uses metaphor to show us how they are connected and what they have in common. Try it yourself. Practice walking through your world in search of metaphorical connections.

Extended metaphors Extended metaphors are metaphors that run throughout a piece of work. For example, in the poem Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy, the speaker says 'I give you an onion.' ...

Wake eternally: Is a metaphor derived from the poem, Death Be Not Proud," by John Donne (1572-1631). In the poem, Donne takes on death and ends with: "Death, thou shalt die." ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always ...

Each quarterly issue offers a diverse, thoughtfully orchestrated gathering of short stories, general-interest essays, poems, reviews, and visual art. Never stuffy and never shallow, The Georgia Review ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always ...