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Use Of Extended Metaphor In The Snow Shower

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In William Cullen Bryant’s, “The Snow-Shower,” and Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book,” both portray extended metaphor, a crucial and potent literary device enhancing the readers understanding of each of their respectable poems. Both Bryant and Bradstreet demonstrate the use of extended metaphor extremely well, bringing in other literary techniques such as alliteration and meter to bring out their metaphors’ meaning. Each poem brings out a deeper insight to life and do enjoy it. Anne Bradstreet uses the metaphor of motherhood, describing the book as her child. Like a protective mother, she writes that the book was “ill-formed” and snatched away from her before it was ready to go public. The “friends” who took
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