Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop - Poem Analysis
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The first, simile, is a comparison of unlike things using the words “like” or “as”. When a poet uses this technique it is to say something appears “like” something else, not that it “is” something else. There is an example in line eleven of the first stanza with the phrase: “the mountains look like
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- The first, simile, is a comparison of unlike things using the words “like” or “as”. When a poet uses this technique it is to say something appears “like” something else, not that it “is” something else. There is an example in line eleven of the first stanza with the phrase: “the mountains look like the hulls of capsized ships”.
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