Tretheway Metaphors

The Tretheway poem that I choose was “Theories of Time and Space”. The reason why I choose this poem was because it was the best one I could play around with and connect to the photo of Mrs. Benson diving into the water. I also choose it because the message that I got from it was if you do lose sight of where you are from or who you are that person or place is always still in you. With this I tried to show that in my poem just in a little bit but in a different way. I did this when Mrs. Benson is looking back at her photo. She never realized till that day she had that personality in her and she may not fully have in anymore it is still a part of who she is. Also, we see this when I have her talking about the reservoir. She has this perfect …show more content…
First I want to look at “young and beautiful like a blooming white spring flower” In this I wanted to show what Mildred looked like in the photo. I did this by comparing her to a blooming white spring flower. I chose these words because when I think about beauty I think of blossoming flowers that are coming out in the spring. Then the reason why I chose white to describe the flowers because white symbolized purity and youth which is what I was trying to get the reader to think about. I wanted the purity part to stand out though because it has to go with the second metaphor that I was setting up. “I was a blind eyed doe going out into the big bad world” in this metaphor I wanted to show that Mrs. Benson in the photo never knew what she was going to get from like and that she was going in blind and scared. I do this by saying “blind eyed doe” in this I wanted people to actually envision a scared doe that is walking out of her sheltered life and on her way to experience new things that she never knew were out there. I didn’t want the readers to think a literal blind doe I just wanted it to be a metaphor that showed she didn’t know what life was going to be throw and her. Within these two metaphors I just wanted them to describe how Mrs. Benson felt but didn’t want to put in phrasing where as she was literally …show more content…
First I want to look at how I used spunky in the poem “Diving in” When writing it I wanted people to get that Mildred has a spirited personality that shows she is courageous and fearless. I wanted this known because she was similar to the characters she wrote about. I also used it because in all my research that was the word that people used to describe her as well as the characters she wrote. In my research. I also found out that Mildred was the one that gave Nancy Drew her personality that she has in the books. I knew I wanted to use the word spunky in my poem. When looking in the Oxford English Dictionary I learned that around the time of 1805-1875 spunky meant mean, irritable, and irascible. This is not what I want readers to think about Mildred but it could be seen potentially this way. “I may be older and not so much of a spunky and adventurous journalist any more” I could be insinuating now that Mildred is older she is more irritable and angry because she is no longer her old spirited self anymore which would them counter what I said about her being “not so much of a spunky”. When choosing warm I wanted it to mean a few things. I wanted it to represent the what that day was like in the photo but also the way she feels about that memory. It holds a place in her heart because it is such a great memory she has. When looking up warm in the Oxford English Dictionary the