Metaphors & Riddles
- ddimitrannist
- 6 Νοε 2015
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Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
We began talking about metaphors with a poem by Sylvia Plath. Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. "Metaphors", written in 1959, contains a series of metaphors, which constitute "a riddle in nine syllables". Each line consists of nine syllables and the answer to the riddle is a word of nine letters.
Can you solve it?
Metaphors
I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising. Money’s new-minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there’s no getting off.
Did you know? Plath suffered from depression and committed suicide at the age of thirty.
Hear the poem as read by Georgia
Solution: pregnancy
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