The poem "A Simile" by N. Scott Momaday is a good example of mostly that, a simile. With very few lines in the poem, only a few lines make up the simile portion. The first line says what is actuality happening, the more important parts to the meaning of the poem is the first part which reads, "What did we say to each other (Line1) ". This tells reader something important was said between the two people. The rest of the poem tells the readers what was said caused a conflict. In the poem it reads the two are now "as the deer (Line2)," and with “whose limbs are full of latent flight (Line8)." In the poem this was said in the first line, the people are now flighty and irresponsible at each other and is frightened at what comes for them in the