Anne Bradshaw Use Of Extended Metaphor

Anne Bradshaw uses extended metaphor in “Rose Shade” to help the readers understand her emotions about poetry by inserting those metaphors between sentences that contrast what she desires to keep her emotions hidden. In between describing herself taking care of the children, Bradshaw states “Dare to grasp a pen”(22). She sarcastically contrasts taking care of the children which is a hard task to an easy task such as writing. Bradshaw shows her emotions with the thought of women can do anything by describing how women are already raising the children which is more than hard work to doing trivial stuff such as writing. Her emotion when writing that was annoyance and the metaphor perfectly describes it. Another example of her using metaphors to