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." ...

This is an essential picture book filled with metaphor examples and simile examples that will help you start conversations about racial injustice, emotions, and what it’s like to be black in the ...

What is a metaphor? A metaphor is a figure of speech used to make a comparison or analogy through phrases and words. For example, a metaphor can compare one thing – such as an action or object – to ...

Lucknow: With verses that pierced the silence and evoked heartfelt applause, Major Ankita Tewari of the Indian Armed Forces ...

In the 1947 poem "Motive for Metaphor," he shows language's power to make the ordinary into art. ♪♪ ♪♪ -There's so much mystery in that.

It sounds like poetry, whereas "Ideas colorless sleep green furiously" sounds like gibberish. It seems wrong to ignore the poetic when we find it.

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 ...

Her fifth book of poems, “Obit” (2020), was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Time Must-Read. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in Antioch University’s M.F.A. program.

And for a special Science Friday celebration, we’ll be looking at where science and poetry meet. Tracy K. Smith, the current poet laureate of the United States, wrote the 2011 book Life On Mars, which ...