Choose one metaphor from this poem and explain why it is a metaphor, what the comparison means, and why you think the author chose to make this comparison. What is the Sun?
By Wes Magee
The Sun is an orange dinghy
sailing across a calm sea

It is a gold coin dropped
down a drain in Heaven

It is a red thumb-print
on a sheet of pale blue paper.

"It is a gold coin dropped

down a drain in Heaven"

The comparison means that it's sort of like a golden coin that someone had dropped down a sink drain on an accident, but someone dropped it down the drain in heaven and it has now landed in the sky of the Earth.

I think the author chose to make this comparison because the sun is yellow and it is sort of a golden color and it is sort of common for things to be dropped down the drain. Therefore, it is like a golden coin going down the drain of heaven and into the sky.

she was killed in her home during hurricane katrina. b.she was relocated to another town after hurricane katrina. c.she died trying to get victims of the hurricane to safety. d.she is still missing — police do not know where she is.

elie wiesel is a holocaust survivor

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