Metaphor Poem

1. Metaphor Poem

2. What is it? • Metaphor: comparing two unlike subjects • Most poems are metaphors. Let’s look at an example from Shakespeare.

3. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day
 Sonnet 18 
William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

4. What’s being compared? • How do we know? • What language does he use to compare these two things?

5. Activity • Go online and find a poem. Bookmark it, we will be using it later. • Make a t-chart and label each side with the two things that are being compared throughout the poem. • On the right side, list things that could relate to the subject on the left side. • Share out.

6. Pre-Writing Activity • Take out a sheet of paper. Make a t-Chart • What two things are the most interesting to you, but are polar opposites of each other? Label each side of the t-chart with these two things. • Write down ten things describing each. • Are there any words that compare? • Use those words that compare to write your poem

7. Homework • Write a poem about these two things. Compare these two subjects throughout your poem using figurative and descriptive language.