1. Which are metaphors? 1) Love is a rose. 2) Slender beards of light hang from the railing outside. 3) I’ve got to meet the deadline! 4) “It’s raining men!” (The Weather Girls) 5) We need to find a cure for racism in this country. 6) The Republicans launched an attack on the Democrats’ budget proposal.

2. How Does It Work? LOVE

3. Another Example People going to work

4. W.S. Merwin’s “Separation” Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

5. Playing with Merwin... Your absence has gone through me Like a dagger through the heart Like a piece of paper through a shredder Like a piano through a third-floor window Everything I do is ___________.

6. In Groups:  Five poems: what’s being compared?  Something abstract to something concrete?  Something concrete to something else concrete?  Just one “extended” metaphor? Multiple metaphors?  Why make the comparison(s)? What’s suggested by the metaphor(s)?