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Metaphorically Speaking

Metaphors:

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare
“I am the good shepherd…and I lay down my life for the sheep.” – The Bible, John 10:14-15
“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.” – Khalil Gibran
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” – Walt Whitman
“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” – George Orwell
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.” – Emily Dickinson
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth

Why good metaphors?

How to turn stale language into smart metaphors...

How to craft original metaphors beyond 'his love was an ocean.'

Where a simile directly compares something to another thing by saying 'his love was as deep as an ocean,' you just imply it the other way.

Cliché language usually derives from stuff that's already been uttered and so greatly reknown it's lost it's trademark in essence by being used in every day expressions that could go as far back as to Shakespeare's day. You want to get away from that and find unique expressions of your own to call metaphors in what you write. This way, you develop your own style. Readers will get a feel for who you are and what you like when you describe.

Could call this class from metaphors to expressionism. How to paint a picture with poetic words.

Start with:

I'll write you sonnets, if you witness
Vacuous, hollow words contained
Restrained by structure
Ever toiling to find meaning
Or
Run amok in a field of words
Harvesting life's little treasures
Unkempt, sprawling, falling out
Of pants pockets before I shove
In your tall glass with my water

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