Metaphors are often used in poetry, literature, songs and everyday speech to make the tone more illustrative or expressive. Metaphor examples in songs include: "Life is a highway." "I am titanium." ...

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.' ...

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 ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once.