Read The Poem Carefully. Explain How The Author Use Analogy To Compare And Describe The Night Clouds. Then Answer The Questions That Follow., Night Clouds

Read the poem carefully. Explain how the author use analogy to compare and describe the night clouds. Then answer the questions that follow.

Night Clouds by Amy Lowell

The white mares of the moon rush along the sky Beating their golden hoofs upon the glass Heavens; The white mares of the moon are all standing on their hind legs Pawing at the green porcelain doors of the remote Heaves. Fly, Mares! Strain your utmost. Scatter the milky dust of stars, Or the tiger sun will leap upon you and destroy you with one lick of his vermillion tongue.

1. Who or what is the speaker talking to in the poem? The speak is talking to the reader.


2. To what the night clouds are compared? To the white mares.


3. What might the speaker mean by the line, "Or the tiger sun will leap upon you and destroy you?"


4-5. Explain how the author use analogy to compare and describe the night clouds.

 

Answer:

1.To mares

2.the glass heavens

3.is a warning to mates so that they would be consumed by the tiger sun

4.he compared it to green porcelain doors and compares it to the heavens

ANALOGY:this refers to the use of words to show similarities between two or more things and is usually in a LITERARY SENSE

Explanation:

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