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Verse II
A
simile is something that you use to compare
Two unrelated things with an element that’s shared
My mind is like an ocean; it’s as smooth as jazz
But it’s only a simile if it uses “like” or “as”
A
metaphor is similar, but watch out!
Be careful ’cause you’ve got to leave “like” and “as” out
My mind is an ocean; my words are a river,
So keep your ears open as I continue to deliver
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Here's a poem full of similes about similes:
Predictable
Poor as a church mouse.
strong as an ox,
cute as a button,
smart as a fox.
thin as a toothpick,
white as a ghost,
fit as a fiddle,
dumb as a post.
bald as an eagle,
neat as a pin,
proud as a peacock,
ugly as sin.
When people are talking
you know what they'll say
as soon as they start to
use a cliché.
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See the metaphors from "The Blind Men and the Elephant," both an illustration for the original poem, and a modern cartoon version of how various people might see the elephant in our times.
See the poem with illustrations at
http://wordinfo.info/unit/1?letter=B&spage=3
Simile poems:
POEM
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti -- first stanza
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Difference by Mark Doty -- first stanza
The jellyfish
float in the bay shallows
like schools of clouds, . .
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This entire poem is a simile, comparing Native Americans to the deer a Modern Native American author used to hunt:
A Simile by Navarre Scott Momaday
What did we say to each other
that now we are as the deer
who walk in single file
with heads high
with ears forward
with eyes watchful
with hooves always placed on firm ground
in whose limbs there is latent flight
poem by Mia Lyons
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And for you baseball fans --
The Base Stealer
Poised between going on and back, pulled
Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,
Fingertips pointing the opposites,
Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball,
Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on!
Running a scattering of steps sidewise,
How he teeters, skitters, tingles, teases,
Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird,
He's only flirting, crowd him, crowd him,
Delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate - Now!
----Robert Francis
Below, see some more literary examples for metaphor and simile:
