Metaphor poem- The forerunners

Lesson 1
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark;
White is their colour, and behold my head.
But must they have my brain? must they dispark
Those sparkling notions, which therein were bred?
Must dulnesse turn me to a clod?
Yet have they left me, Thou art still my God.

Good men ye be, to leave me my best room,
Ev'n all my heart, and what is lodged there:
I passe not, I, what of the rest become,
So Thou art still my God, be out of fear.
He will be pleased with that dittie;
And if I please him, I write fine and wittie.

Farewell sweet phrases, lovely metaphors.
But will ye leave me thus? when ye before
Of stews and brothels onely knew the doores,
Then did I wash you with my tears, and more,
Brought you to Church well drest and clad;
My God must have my best, ev'n all I had.

Louely enchanting language, sugar-cane,
Hony of roses, whither wilt thou flie?
Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane?
And wilt thou leave the Church, and love a stie?
Fie, thou wilt soil thy broider'd coat,
And hurt thy self, and him that sings the note.

Let foolish lovers, if they will love dung,
With canvas, not with arras clothe their shame:
Let follie speak in her own native tongue.
True beautie dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrow'd thence to light us thither.
Beautie and beauteous words should go together.

Yet if you go, I passe not; take your way:
For, Thou art still my God, is all that ye
Perhaps with more embellishment can say,
Go birds of spring: let winter have his fee,
Let a bleak palenesse chalk the doore,
So all within be livelier then before.

In this metaphor poem, words and terms like "Must dulnesse turn me to a clod?", "With canvas, not with arras clothe their shame" , "Let follie speak in her own native tongue" , "True beautie dwells on high: ours is a flame" , "Farewell sweet phrases, lovely metaphors." , "Go birds of spring: let winter have his fee" , " Let a bleak palenesse chalk the doore, " .

All this terms are metaphor because they describes a subject to be alike as another subject.

The author probably chose to use Metaphor for this poem because Metaphor allows him to describe the the harbingers, the lovers, their spirits and the seasons.

I like this poem because it is logistic and rhymes. It clearly describes the harbingers of their personality, the season, the birds and the character himself. The poem also consists of many new vocabulary words and many metaphors which we can all use in our daily homework. The poem rhymes and is logistic as it describes things can might happen unlike poems with non-logistic contents. I also like the poem due to it being a cheerful poem as every phrase of the poem tells us of only positive things and not negative stuffs or description which usually some non-logistic poems contain.
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