Example 1: For washing me cleaner than I have ever been
Example 2: Born into this solitude
Thesis: The poem Rain includes a lot of very powerful metaphors since it makes the piece much more affective when reading it
A defenition of a metaphor from vocabulary.com is "A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest similarity". The poem Rain includes a lot of very powerful metaphors since it makes the piece much more affective when reading it. "For washing me cleaner than I have ever been". This one metaphor is about him death but it is mentioned in an implicit way meaning that it does not say it directly in the text. The word washing in this metaphor, is describing all his feelings, thoughts, emotions and so on since all of these things are being washed away. What it means by "For washing me cleaner than I have ever been" is that when he dies, he will be clean from everything and he will be free from the war. Another metaphor that is included in the same sentence as the other one, is "Born into this solitude". He wasn't actually born into solitude but the war brought him into solitude because he was taken away from all of the people that he loves and now is just alone, in the war fighting. Having metaphors in a poem is something that is quite important for a poem to include since then you will have to really consider what is happening in it.
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