Metaphor

Explore the following metaphors and extend them with your own comparisons. Then create a new metaphor with the aim of controlling or unifying one of your essays.

"Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, [sleep is] sore labor's bath, [the] balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast." -Shakespeare, Macbeth, II, ii, 36

A future with memory enhancers, according to experts who have begun to wrestle with the issue, means Pandora's got a brand new box. Will companies someday require employees to use these drugs to improve on-the-job performance?....Will students have to submit a urine sample when they turn in their S.A.T.'s?" -Stephen S. Hall. "Our Memories, Our Selves." New York Times Magazine (15 Feb 1998): 28.

In his short story interpretation, First Ice, student writer Philip Toupin uses a controlling metaphor for his title and thesis as do the following writers in their book titles:
Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders by Mary Pipher
The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back by Bill Shore

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