| Simile Poems This page provides examples of Simile poems. The simile poems and poetry selected are by famous poets who have used Simile as a poetic or literary device to convey, emphasize and create vivid images. Poets use this type of device as an unusual alternative to every day speech to help them express mood and emotion. For additional information about Similes please click the following link: |
Examples of Simile Poems and in Literary works Our examples of Simile poems and poetry have been selected from the work of some of the the most famous American and English poets and authors.
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot
- O my love is like a red, red rose by Robert Burns
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- As good as gold from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Death lies on her, like an untimely frost from Romeo and Juliet - Act 4, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner -- Part Two
- Men and Women by Robert Browning
- Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Simile Extracts from poems & poetry illustrating Simile
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- "Like an old-stone savage armed" from Mending Wall by Robert Frost
- "When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table" from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot
- "O my love is like a red, red rose" by Robert Burns
- "Idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean" from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- "Yellow butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun" from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner -- Part Two
- "Guiltless forever, like a tree" from Men and Women by Robert Browning
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Examples Help! Use of Examples of Simile Poems in Poems & Poetry The Simile poem, poems or poetry convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to poetic and literary works. | |
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