Block B and D Gr 12: Metaphor poems Due Mon. Dec 10
After reading Emily Dickenson's "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves", create your own metaphor poem. Use "it" like Dickenson, so that the reader has to interpret your metaphor. Remember to create vivid imagery.
CRITERIA:
-Your poem can be written in free verse or you can create a rhyme scheme.
-Create vivid imagery
-It must be 10-15 lines (if you have a 1 word line for stylistic effect just remember that it doesn't count as one of the 10-15 lines.
TIP: Before writing the poem, brainstorm as many things you can about your "it" – object/season/thing. Remember that Dickenson's poem compares snow to may things associated with white etc: "a crystal veil", powder, the sleeves of a queen's puffy shirt or her bloomers!
Here's a sample one I found:
First it is a sailboat bobbing gently in the ocean foam Then it is like a spring lamb bounding across a sky-meadow And then it is a sweet swirl of vanilla ice cream in a blue china bowl And now it becomes a mound of fresh, fluffy popcorn Changing into a circus elephant, plump and gray Forming a tropical island covered in sparkling white sand And it is soft and puffy like pink cotton candy And now I watch it float peacefully away over the purple horizon. Answer: it is a cloud!