Question

write a minimum 150 word response in which you explain the poet's use of extended metaphor in Sandra Coseros’s ""Cloud"" be sure to cite examples from the text in your response

Answer 1

The poem "The Cloud" by Percy Bysshe Shelley employs an extended metaphor, as it compares a cloud to life throughout the whole poem.

The cloud is meant to stand for the cycle of nature, or the unending cycle of life. Through the many cycles and transformations that the cloud endures, Shelley wants to represent the never ending cycle of birth, death and rebirth that all beings on Earth go through. The poem, therefore, focuses on the mutability of nature as the only constant in the physical world. Moreover, this allows the author to also employ the cloud as a symbol of the many changes that humans undergo throughout their lives.

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Answer 2

Sandra Coseros's poem "Clouds" tries to give the message that we do not realize how nice are things in our world without examining them and taking the time to appreciate them. She tries to show how beautiful things are by using extended metaphors throughout the poem.

When she compares the cloud with different things, which seem unrelated, but she manages to show the connection between them since they are present in our world and we do not consider them, or what some elements of an object were before becoming the actual object. We can see how she uses extended metaphors in the poem. A clear example is "you became a cloud, you were an ocean, roiled and murmuring like a mouth. You were the shadows of a cloud crossing over a field of tulips. You were the tears of a man who cried into a plaid handkerchief. You were the sky without a hat. Your heart puffed and flowered like sheets drying on a line." In this section of the poem, there is clear evidence of how she uses a single metaphor, which is a cloud and links it with other objects to try to deliver her message clearly.

Step-by-step explanation:

An extended metaphor is a device where writers use one metaphor and describe it with great detail throughout the lines of a poem or paragraph. In this case, the metaphor was the cloud, and the metaphor extended it by compearing with different things such as an ocean, tears, a shadow, amongst others.