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by Nuttsky on September 26th, 2009
Well, yes, it's an extended metaphor. It starts out well but you don't do yourself any favors by so emphatically "becoming" a sheep. Perhaps instead you could re-savor the sweetness of the grass- and clover-flavored images of the day, or something like that. Also: Why "walk away into the night"? Grazing herd animals generally walk HOME at day's end.
What is a credo poem?
by Answerbag Staff on May 18th, 2010
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Would this be at least somewhat okay as a rough draft for a non-rhyming poem...? It's due tomorrow. (Read Description)
by Death Note57 on December 5th, 2011
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Finish: roses are red, viloets are____________?
by DIYman on December 8th, 2011
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Can I see/hear some of your own personally written poetry?
by Unicorn Man on October 31st, 2011
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Does anyone else write poetry when they are hurting? It is an outlet for me...
by Nancy is really struggling right now... on November 21st, 2011
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You're reading Is this an extended metaphor? I too spend my days grazing. feasting on every green moment till darkness calls, and with the others I walk away into the night, swinging the little tin bell of my name.
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Thanks for the help. This actually isnt something I wrote though, but an excert from a poem "A Birthday Poem", which is about death, by Ted Kooser.
by hellogoodbye2u on September 27th, 2009
Thanks for letting me know. I went and looked it up, hoping that the rest of the poem would resolve my objection to it. It didn't - for me, the poem just doesn't work well, for several reasons. (I grew up on a farm.)(Incidentally, I earned my Ph.D. from the same English Department where Kooser earned his M.A.)
by Nuttsky on September 27th, 2009