Metaphor | Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (2024)

Metaphoris a common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object.

A beautiful example can be seen in the first stanza ofThe Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, in the line:

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas…

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