Methapor in An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay

Theory

·      Metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. It is, put simply a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as. It is not to be mistaken with a simile which does use like or as in comparisons.Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics.In simple English, when you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else, even though it is not actually that “something else,” you are speaking metaphorically.

For example: “He is the black sheep of the family”

An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie

(IN THE BEGINNING)

 The sun is a huntress young,

 The sun is a red, red joy,

 The sun is an Indian girl,

 Of the tribe of the Illinois.

 (MID-MORNING)

 The sun is a smouldering fire,

 That creeps through the high gray plain,

 And leaves not a bush of cloud

 To blossom with flowers of rain.

 (NOON)

 The sun is a wounded deer,

 That treads pale grass in the skies,

 Shaking his golden horns,

 Flashing his baleful eyes.

 (SUNSET)

 The sun is an eagle old,

 There in the windless west.

 Atop of the spirit-cliffs

 He builds him a crimson nest.

a.   Metaphor: is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.

1.      The sun is a huntress young,

2.      The sun is a red, red joy,

3.      The sun is an Indian girl,

4.      The sun is a smouldering fire,

5.      The sun is a wounded deer,

6.      The sun is an eagle old,