LESSON 3 – USING ANALOGIES

Exploratory activity

Instead of saying that you are sad or gloomy, you may opt to describe why the clouds are
now gray in the sky. Studied example below.

Getting up early in the morning to go to class is like taking a bitter pill. You find ways and
reasons not to do it, or not to do with just yet. You struggle against yourself. Finally, you get
up because you know you know you need to just like swallowing the pill you close your eyes
just before you take it like closing your eyes before you open the door to the classroom
ultimately you do it because it is good for you pills will make you better just as attending
your classes will do too. Today you’re just glad you did it.

Answer the following questions. Share your answer with a seatmate.

1. What is the comparison used in getting up early and going to class?

2. What ideas are presented to make the comparison effective?
3. What other comparisons can be made with going to class?

LESSON 3 – USING ANALOGIES

Exploratory activity

Instead of saying that you are sad or gloomy, you may opt to describe why the clouds are
now gray in the sky. Studied example below.

Getting up early in the morning to go to class is like taking a bitter pill. You find ways and
reasons not to do it, or not to do with just yet. You struggle against yourself. Finally, you get
up because you know you know you need to just like swallowing the pill you close your eyes
just before you take it like closing your eyes before you open the door to the classroom
ultimately you do it because it is good for you pills will make you better just as attending
your classes will do too. Today you’re just glad you did it.

Answer the following questions. Share your answer with a seatmate.

1. What is the comparison used in getting up early and going to class?

2. What ideas are presented to make the comparison effective?
3. What other comparisons can be made with going to class?
Analogies

Analogy is an extended comparison between two things. Seasoned writers often use
analogies for readers to better understand their writing. They also use analogies because
sometimes the emotions are either too direct or painful, so they need to project their ideas to
other things.

Islands and Icebergs

(Or, How to Read a Poem) You ask: Where

is the connection, the link
Imagine the paper between each to each?
on which this poem is written
as an ocean.
You ask: Must I hop
Imagine these words from this island to the next,
as either islands or icebergs feeling after feeling?
floating on the surface.
Or must I move
Imagine yourself from one iceberg to the other,
as an explorer, a cartographer thought after thought?
of heart and mind.
And I answer,
From the safety take a deep breath and dive
of your imagination’s ship, into the dead calm.
what do you see?
Taste, feel, smell;
A mountain peak; see what was once invisible
perhaps a ribbon of smoke listen to the silence ---
from an old volcano?
Read again.
A drifting glacier;
a pair of polar bears frolicking
on thin ice?
Read and answer the following questions.

1. What is the theme of the poem?

2. How does the author develop the theme of the poem?
3. Why are there 3 lines in each stand up stanza? What could be the purpose of the poet
in writing three lines per stanza?
4. Why are icebergs and islands chosen as images for the poem? In what ways are they
similar?
5. What other images can be used for the writing of a poem?