How wonderful to watch a writer who was already among the best young poets get even better!” —Terrance Hayes All of our resources - including these metaphor poem templates - are prepared and edited by our teaching team, ensuring they are as relevant to the curriculum as possible - so why not introduce this creative exercise into your classroom to shake up the routine of whiteboard learning? Other resources for learning figurative language The ocean’s grandeur and beauty are breathtaking. From scientists and chemists to explorers and mariners, the ocean and its complete ecology captivate, enthrall, and delight multitudes of people all over the world. At the same time, while the ocean and death intertwined may sound weird but I understood why even seasoned poets write about these two together. This word mat of under-the-sea adjectives will be a perfect complement to this resource, helping to build a broader range of vocabulary.

Unlike W. B. Yeats in ‘Lapis Lazuli’, where the poet sees the robustness of civilisation embodied by the rebuilding of culture and societies over different historical periods, Housman emphasises the ultimate futility of building empires or making anything. And yet, the cleverness of the imagery is that the pools of fir could be a description of the green sea (resembling fir trees) or a description of actual fir trees whose green pine needles are washing over the mountains. This ambiguity is doubtless deliberate, because it fuses the land and the sea, the water and the trees, in one seamless image, suggesting the longed-for meeting of the two. Oceanic] is an important work, both for its poetic merits and for its incisive capture of the increasingly precarious nature of life, both human and nonhuman, on this planet.” — Ploughshares These mesmerizing verses invite you to contemplate the complexities, emotions, and profound experiences that shape our existence, leaving you with a renewed sense of introspection. “The Ocean of Song” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Do you yearn for the sea? If you literally cannot wait for your next beach vacation or sailing excursion across the ocean, read these poems about the beautiful ocean.

Sea Poems

The waves that wash the shore may devour the sand but this doesn’t mean that the sand is lost forever, it just becomes a part of the deeper part of the ocean.

The oceans always give you a sense of being alive. It is a treatment that purifies you bodily, mentally, and emotionally. Many deep short ocean poems throw emphasis on the truth that the ocean aids in the restoration of a person’s physiological, intellectual, and emotional well-being. ‎ 1. Deep Sea from the poetic structures that cultivate dazzling settings to the metaphors that brim with possibility, Oceanic… reawakens my curiosity for a world that still holds so many undiscovered wonders.” — Literary Review Figurative language is a key skill for any student to add to their writing toolbelt - it is by using figurative language that we give shape and colour to our writing, helping to draw parallels between difficult or abstract concepts and everyday parts of the human experience. Fig. 5. AC 82-7/8, “On this wondrous sea – sailing silently –,” about summer 1858. Courtesy of Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. For link, see: https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:15595/asc:15604

Fig. 3. While the original manuscript of this poem is lost, the above fragment (AC 169, about 1880?) is extant. We might say a poem is a bit like a boat, a vessel borne aloft by rhythms that surge or eddy. It is also like the sea itself, with its deep places and ever-receding horizon. “The sea has many voices,” observes Eliot in The Dry Salvages. More than anything, the many voices of oceanic poetry declare the vitality of life even in the midst of crisis. “There is a lullaby in all of us,” Burnett writes, “a call of sea”. If only we would listen.