Metaphor Double Dactyl Poems
These Metaphor Double Dactyl poems are examples of Double Dactyl poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Double Dactyl Metaphor poems written by international poets.
The Ancient Mariner's FateThe Ancient Mariner’s Fate
Eternally doomed adrift
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Mariner repeats his
Story over and over now.
A sad soul in true agony
Incomprehensible
His heart now dry...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, destiny, fate,
Fall of ManFall of Man
Adam and Eve
John Milton
Don’t eat that fruit
Thought they could.
Tree of Knowledge
Insubordination
Downfall occurs . . .
“Evil, be thou my good.”
Gary Bateman,...
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Categories:
allegory, betrayal, god, introspection,
The Oneness of AllThe Oneness of All
Depths of wisdom
Hermann Hesse
Spirituality’s quest
Soul’s transformation.
Enlightenment assured
Corporealization
The oneness of all
Siddhartha’s realization.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
June 18, 2017 (Double Dactyl)...
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Categories:
change, god, introspection, journey,
Bryant's Necropolis ConceitBryant’s Necropolis Conceit
Silent halls of death so cometh
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis supremeus now
A sepulchre awaits us all.
Dour darkness and shroud forever
Thanatopsis-Phantasmus
The spirit world so beckons...
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Categories:
allegory, death, grave, imagery,
Prufrock's Symbolic WorldPrufrock’s Symbolic World
Metaphors-Extraordinaire
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Metaphysical consciousness
Aura of aging and decay.
Streams of consciousness forever
Proto-disillusionment
The mermaids singing each to each
The mermaids will not sing today.
Gary Bateman,...
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Categories:
allegory, imagery, introspection, metaphor,