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Simile Poems
This page provides examples of Simile poems. The simile poems and poetry
selected are by famous poets who have used Simile as a poetic or
literary device to convey, emphasize and create vivid images.
Poets use this type of device as an unusual alternative to every
day speech to help them express mood and emotion. For additional
information about Similes please click the following link:
Simile
Examples of Simile
Poems and in Literary works
Our examples of Simile
poems
and poetry have been selected from the work of some of the the most famous
American and English poets and authors.
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The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by TS Eliot
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O my love is
like a red, red rose by Robert Burns
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The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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As good as
gold from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Death lies
on her, like an untimely frost from Romeo and Juliet -
Act 4, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare
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The Sound
and the Fury by William Faulkner -- Part Two
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Men and
Women by Robert Browning
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Mending Wall
by Robert Frost
Extracts from poems
& poetry illustrating Simile
The following
extracts are examples from Simile poems and poetry:
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"Like an
old-stone savage armed" from Mending Wall by Robert
Frost
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"When the
evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient
etherised upon a table" from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by TS Eliot
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"O my love is
like a red, red rose" by Robert Burns
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"Idle as a
painted ship upon a painted ocean" from The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Yellow
butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun"
from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner -- Part
Two
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"Guiltless
forever, like a tree" from Men and Women by Robert
Browning
Examples Help! Use
of Examples of Simile Poems in Poems & Poetry
The Simile poem, poems or poetry convey and emphasize unusual
and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the
mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment
to poetic and literary works. |
