Analyzing Figurative Language's Effect
Categorize the images and feelings created by the
figurative language. Are they positive or negative?
Positive Image
Negative Image
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore,
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
"Introduction to Poetry." Billy Collins