By Metaphors

First of all I am very thankful to you because I need these opinions, believe me this is my first try in descriptive writing. And I am so confuse. The biggest problem i am facing at this moment is Lacking Words.I am ok in speaking but writing is far from speaking. My mind think feel but i...

Ignore my comment about the giant. I was just trying to think of a metaphor for you. I didn't mean giant, the adjective, but giant, the noun. Your computer is a giant in its power - it's just a small size. My light brown table supports the intelligent computer system at the opposite side...

You meant like this: Is this ok ?My tall Off-white in color, right wall gracefully hold the blue , wide window . Today, In these pleasent evening colors streaming in through this open window, I feel much relaxed --light as fur, the dark clouds of stress and fatigue seemingly fading away.Or i...

Hello Grammar Geek, thanks for helping me here! Well I don’t understand the previous post. Giant size, are you saying about speaker size I should emphasis for metaphor? My light-brown table placed on the opposite side opposite side of the bed from what? of the bed,Don't...

Try to think of a giant metaphor for the whole thing. The part about the guards is great- but it doesn't match the rest of the imagery. It is a sleeping giant? Small in size, but powerful in nature? Try to think of how each piece fits in with the entire metaphor.

1.) I believe I've heard the verb "to founder" used to describe a ship which is just begining to sink. A Negotiatiated peace would be one achieved through discussions and compromises in terms, rather than through bloodshed. The work being done toward this objective began to look as...

Stephen Conway 1995 Literature and Virtue in Sidney’s “Apology for Poetry” In "An Apology for Poetry" Sir Philip Sidney attempts to reassert the fundamental importance of literature to society in general as well as to other creative and intellectual...

Picture a boxer - he swings hard with his right hand and his opponent is reeling, and then swings hard with his left hand and knock the opponent out. Now apply it as a metaphor.

.It does not seem like a poem-- it has no rhythm, no rhyme, no imagery, no metaphor. Without the artificial line breaks, it would be a simple paragraph:In the cold of winter, snow and ice, you gave me a match lit with fire, and only then I realized that I was cold. I shiver now, feel cold and...

If life is a race to the finish line of economic success, more and more members of the American middle class (and other, lower classes as well) are falling behind. Or, if the economy is an express train that's going to carry Americans to financial success, many of them are being left at the...