The Power of Visual Aids Metaphor is a poetic device in which an implied comparison between two usually unrelated things. In Linda Pastan’s poem “Marks” for example, the speaker uses the metaphor of marks or grades of a student as a way that her family measures her performance as a wife/mom. Just like a teacher place value on the work of students. She writes, “My husband gives me an A for last night’s supper” (lines 1-2). The speaker’s constant usage of her marks throughout the entirety of the poem helps to convey her constant struggle of judgment by her family to the reader. The choice of family pictures within the visual interpretation is to show the mother and her family as one may see them outside of the home. In slides two, three,
