"Moving In Winter" contains very descriptive metaphors that signal the feelings of seperation, discontentment, and coldness. The metaphors not only display a line by line story that describes the couple's wintry move, but also the winter move symbolically expresses the couple's relationship. The narrator compares one's life and a pack of cards in the first line, "Their life, collapsed like unplayed cards, is

Donne incorporates metaphors that symbolize religion. The narrator pleads with the woman not to heed the society's notion of honor and respect, but rather to allow the beauty of what they have to become more sacred. The metaphor "Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare" to resemble something similar to the holy trinity, but in this case it would be the flea and the two lovers. Killing the flea would be sinful because it would kill all three.

carried piecemeal through the snow". This metaphor gives a reader a new outlook on life. A Deck of cards consist of vital roles. Compared to a family, the husband would play the role of the king, the wife the role of the queen, and the children would play the role of the jacks. Thi

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Approximate Word count = 573
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)