AIM: How are metaphors used by writers to send meaning to readers?
Do Now:
Complete the following:
Love is ___________________.
Mrs. Peterson started a discussion about what they put for the Do Now, talking about different meanings to what they put, and maybe some lore behind what they chose, such as a tv show reference. I personally put that love is blind like a bat because we were doing a lesson about metaphors and I wanted to add one in my answer.
Metaphors: The distinct comparison where one thing or idea substitutes for another.
It’s a figure of speech that develops a comparison which is different from a simile.
It often uses the form of the verb, “To Be.”
Poetic Device Video for help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4gMKZKU3lE&ab_channel=TheRedRoomCompany
[Metaphors] actually makes an implicit or hidden comparison and not an explicit one
An extended metaphor is developed over several lines or throughout a poem.
There is a poem with the metaphor being developed over the poem being an hourglass, with the metaphor being the hourglass comparing to life.
There is then a class discussion, talking about a poem that's about Hope and personifying it, comparing it to a bird that "perches in the soul and sings the tune - without the words and never stops at all", and also states that hope has never asked for anything from her, which would definitely be a bird living on its own. This shows the difficulty of being Hope and how much it has to stay with you, and also how it always gives you hope everywhere you go but it never asks for anything in return, showing how selfless it is.
There's a different poem about an extended metaphor of raggedy stairs that Mrs Peterson gave, showing the challenges that the mother had to overcome to come to this point, and also develops the idea that her staircase was not the staircase that is ideal. It was raggedy and has a lot of splinters, illustrating to her son that she wasn't given as much opportunities as him.
The next poem we looked over had an extended metaphor of a rose, being outcast by society with nobody caring for him but he then succeeding, growing out of the concrete which would symbolize the hardship that the rose had to go through to get to that step in life, still succeeding even though nobody even cared for him. I compared this to the janitor who invented Hot Cheetos, he is now living a great life and is the sales VP of the company.
For me, today's lesson was a really good learning experience. My take from this lesson is that metaphors come in different shapes and sizes, and the vast use of metaphors is really vast, spanning from explaining an unknown item with known items that the person most likely knows, to convey feelings better than vocabulary words and just how well you can describe items or feelings through texts.
The reason why we learned about metaphors and the vast uses is to use it in our everyday life, our writing and our poetry to further convey whatever point we are trying to make. Another reason why we are learning it is to see the actual meaning of metaphors and to try to inspire us to pursue ELA as a profession.
I will use what I learn by using it in various texts and poems which I need to do, and I will also look into metaphors more to see different types of metaphors and what they mean, and also to use metaphors in my conversations to convey my point better. I honestly really like metaphors, and I really think that you can convey feelings and motives way better than just using vocabulary.
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