Metaphor is a metaphor or figure of speech, in which two different things actually have something in common are compared implicitly.
Metaphor is a rhetorical device, which makes a subtle comparison between two different but common things.
Metaphor is called metaphor in English. In fact, the word originated in Greece. In Greek, metaphor means "transfer" or "leap", that is, to transfer the meaning of one thing to another.
In this article, we learned two different metaphors through two poems.
Conventional metaphor
These metaphors are so common that we may not even notice that they are metaphors.
This metaphor is so common that we don't even feel it is a metaphor.
In the poem The Road Not Taken by American poet Robert Frost, the poet compares life to a road, which shows people's feelings at a crossroads in real life.
Two roads diverged in the yellow forest,
I'm sorry I can't go both.
As a traveler, I stood for a long time.
Look down as much as I can.
It bends in the bushes;
A fork in the road in the yellow leaf forest,
But it's hard for one person to do both,
Along the winding path,
Standing for a long time,
I saw the path turn into the bush.
And took the other one, and to be fair,
Maybe there's a better way to say it.
Because it is covered with grass and needs to be worn;
Nevertheless, after passing there,
Dressed the same,
Then I chose another one,
It seems better to be equally clear,
Attract people to trample on lush grass,
It's hard to tell each other when you step into it,
Although there are really two ways.
That morning, both of them were lying down.
There are no black footprints in the leaves.
Oh, I saved the first one for the next day!
However, knowing how the road leads to the road
I doubt whether I will come back.
There are two roads in the morning,
Like a leaf that no one tramples on,
I am willing to make up the first one tomorrow.
But knowing that everything is interrelated,
I don't know how to pay it back later.
I will tell it with a sigh.
Somewhere after year:
There are two roads in the Woods, and I,
I chose the less traveled one,
This makes everything different.
Somewhere after a long time,
I will sigh and tell people,
The two roads diverged in the Woods,
The footprint I chose is very small,
And all the differences start here.