Imitation Training of Metaphor in Poetry Writing

First, find a poetic or literary place (carrier)

Such as gardens, swamps, corners, treetops, roofs, lighthouses, attics, distant places, valleys and villages. ...

Second, tell the details of the location.

Such as frogs, mud, cattails, mosquitoes, fog and egrets.

Third, prepare an abstract feeling (ontology)

Such as hunger, loneliness, anger, excitement, fear, boredom, loneliness and pleasure.

4. Write a simple sentence by matching the ontology with the vehicle.

Loneliness is a swamp.

Fifth, expand simple figurative sentences, that is, increase local details.

Loneliness is a swamp covered with cattail grass. Several egrets fly over the clouds and then disappear into the sky.

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