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Shel Silverstein Metaphor
One thing that interests me most about metaphor and how you take something little or even play full but then relate it to this big amazing concept or problem in everyday life. I enjoy how metaphor can relate completely unrelated thing like in the Sylvia Plath poem how she compares eaten a bag of green apples to pregnancy, apples and pregnancy are nothing alike but she makes u see the similarities. for my primary source I would like to do a poem by Shel Silverstein he has been one of my favorite poets for a while and I like how he sees the world, and even small fun topic can have a deeper meaning, I think a poem I may want to do is the giving tree. I see the metaphor as a parent and a child the tree is the parent is willing to give everything

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