Thursday, September 22, 2016
Metaphors in The Young Man's Song
The author of The Young Man's Song uses metaphors to add meaning to the poem. He writes about how he's flipping a penny to decide whether he should fall in love. Of course, this is just a metaphor for his almost random decision that he is suddenly the right age to be in love. Of course, he ends up realizing love is a convoluted thing that wraps him up and confuses him. You can tell by the wording he uses when the subject of love comes up ("crooked", "shadows eaten the moon", etc.) that he has negative feelings about it. The penny is a metaphor for how randomly and uncontrollably the he's thrown into this scary thing called love. In short, the metaphor changes the meaning by showing how falling in love was not really an event within the speaker's control.
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