The metaphorical technique is indeed used in "Horse Poetry". "The sand in the desert is like snow, and the moon in Yanshan Mountain is like a hook." These two sentences are typical similes.
The excerpts from the original poem are as follows:
Twenty-three Ma Poems·Part 5
Tang Dynasty: Li He
The Desert Sha Ru Snow, Yanshan moon is like a hook.
How can I be a golden person and walk quickly through the autumn.
The knowledge related to metaphor is as follows:
Metaphor is a commonly used rhetorical technique. It uses something B that is similar to thing A to describe or explain thing A. It is a rhetorical science. One of the figures of speech. It is also called "metaphor" or "analogy". In ancient China, it was called "bi" or "analogy". The famous literary theorist Jonathan Culler defined metaphor: Metaphor is a basic way of cognition. Understand one thing by seeing it as another thing. That is to say, find the absolute similarities between thing A and thing B, discover the unknown characteristics of thing A in thing B, and learn about thing A. There is a new understanding that is different from the usual. According to the way of description or explanation, metaphors can be divided into "simile (metaphor)", "metaphor (metaphor)", "metaphor", "metaphor", "anaphora", ' "General metaphor", "simple metaphor", "detailed metaphor", "introduction to metaphor", and "virtual metaphor".
There are three elements that constitute the content of metaphor: first, the object of thought, that is, the original intention; Other things are metaphors; the third is the similarity between the two things (***similarities and similarities). It is divided into three components in literature, namely: ontology (the thing or situation being compared) and metaphor (expression). Some dictionaries further explain its composition into four components, namely: ontology, metaphor, metaphor and metaphor. .