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Poetry
Simile & Metaphor
Henry David Thoreau
Naturalist & Transcendentalist
Believed in ideal spiritual state that “transcends” the physical
Inspiration??
Mary Oliver
Poetry based on memories from OhioContains a lot of nature imageryKnown by critics as "a patroller of wetlands in the same way that Thoreau was an inspector of snowstorms”
A Review of Poetry Terms
SIMILE: a comparison using “like” or “as”
Ex: The leaves of fall are like a wildfire set ablaze against the horizon.
METAPHOR: a comparison between two things not using “like” or “as”
Ex: The sunset is the artist, painting the sky with vibrant colors.
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