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Writing Problems: Mixed Metaphors
One of the best areas to expand the meaning and beauty of a poem is getting to the right metaphor.
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"Until tomorrow"
Southwick, Holub, Siken, Issa, Herbert, Kunitz
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"The genuine thing."
Buson, Dickinson, Brooks, Hass, Justice
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"the way bee-fingered"
Phillips, Jarrell, Matthews, Pavlova, Wright
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Craft: Virginia Hamilton Adair
Though she spent a lifetime practicing her craft (she started writing poems when she was 6), Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913-2004) did not publish her…
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"pressing against the rail"
Shumaker, Mantel, Kunitz, Clifton, Seidman
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"righting themselves with a thirst"
Williams, Poch, Niedecker, Tanikawa, Stanford
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