When you climbed to the top,
They say it's time you fall.
Hello, my name is Kho Zhiquan. I like to catch creepy crawlies. When the rain comes, I go around jumping in puddles.
I may fall, but I'll pull myself up. Just wait and see.
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Identifying Figurative Language in a Poem
Sunday, June 28, 2009, 5:29 PM
Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Hyperbole- use of O God!
Metaphor-In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
The writer exaggerates by using O God!. Also, he uses metaphors to compare seemingly unrelated vision and day.
This poem compares a lot such as sand and his tears. Also, it is quite unique as what the writer writes are all in a dream.