5 POEMS IN A FIGURATIVE SENSE BY WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS - LITERATURE - 2025

The poems figuratively are a form of language widely used in literature by giving licenses allowing metaphors, more expressive and wider meanings and original.

A poem is a composition that uses the literary resources of poetry. It can be written in different ways, although the most traditional is in verse. The verse is made up of phrases or sentences written on separate lines and grouped into sections called stanzas.

Each of these lines usually rhyme with each other, that is, a similar vowel sound, especially in the last word of each line or in alternate lines (even and / or odd).

On the other hand, figurative language is used when an idea is communicated using a similar one for its explanation and understanding. The opposite of the figurative sense is the literal sense, where words have and use their real and strict meaning.

Poems in a Figurative Sense by Famous Authors

1- The Turtle

The turtle that

walked

so long

and saw so much

with

its

ancient

eyes,

the turtle

that ate

olives

from the deepest

sea,

the turtle that swam

seven centuries

and knew

seven

thousand

springs,

the turtle

armored

against

heat

and cold,

against

lightning and waves,

turtle

yellow

and silver,

with severe

lunar

amber

and feet of prey,

the turtle

stayed

here

sleeping, and does not know.

From so old

she became

hard, she

stopped

loving the waves

and was rigid

as an ironing board.

He closed

his eyes that

so many

sea, sky, time and land

challenged,

and fell asleep

among the other

stones.

Author: Pablo Neruda

Figurative sense: the turtle is not a real turtle; the author refers to it to talk about old age, wisdom, the last days, perhaps the author himself.

2- Ghost

How you arise from yesteryear, arriving,

dazzled, pale student, whose voice they still ask for comfort

the long and fixed months.

His eyes fought like rowers

in the dead infinite

with hope of dream and matter

of beings coming out of the sea.

From the distance where

the smell of the earth is another

and the evening comes crying

in the form of dark poppies.

In the height of the still days

the callous daytime youth

in your ray of light he slept

affirmed as on a sword.

Meanwhile it grows in the shade

of the long course in oblivion

the flower of loneliness, humid, extensive, Like the land in a long winter

Author: Pablo Neruda

Figurative sense: in this poem the ghost is not a real ghost, but a woman, perhaps a former lover, who appeared in the author's life after not knowing about her for a long time.

3- Poetic Art

To Vicente Aleixandre

Nostalgia for the sun on the rooftops, on the concrete dove colored wall

- yet so vivid - and the cold

sudden that almost overwhelms.

The sweetness, the warmth of the lips alone

in the middle of the familiar street

like a great hall, where they went

distant crowds as loved ones.

And above all the vertigo of time, the great gap opening into the soul

while promises rise above

to faint, the same as if you foam.

It is certainly the time to think

that being alive requires something, perhaps heroics -or is enough, simply, some humble common thing

whose crust of terrestrial matter

try between your fingers, with a little faith?

Words, for example.

Family words warmly worn.

Author: Jaime Gil de Biedma

Figurative sense: the author clearly speaks of death, of the loss of a loved one (Vicente Aleixandre, judging by the dedication), using metaphors that convey the idea of ​​nostalgia, pain, recognition and the value of life.

4- You want me white

You love me, dawn,

You love me, foam,

You love me, mother-of-pearl.

Let it be lily

Above all, chaste.

Of faint perfume.

Corolla closed

Not a ray of

Filtered moon has me.

Not a daisy.

Tell yourself my sister.

You want me snowy,

You want me white,

You want me white.

You who had all

The glasses at hand,

Of fruits and honeys

The purple lips.

You who at the banquet

Covered with branches,

You left the meats

Feeding Bacchus.

You who in the

Black Gardens of Deception

Dressed in red

Rushed to Havoc.

You who keep the skeleton

intact

I don't know yet

By what miracles,

You pretend to me white

(God forgive you),

You pretend to me chaste

(God forgive you),

You pretend to me dawn!

Flee into the woods,

Go to the mountain;

Clean your mouth;

Live in the cabins;

He touches the

wet earth with his hands;

Feed the body

With bitter root;

Drink from the rocks;

Sleep on frost;

Renew fabrics

With saltpeter and water;

Talk to the birds

And get up at dawn.

And when the meats

are turned to You,

And when you have put

the soul In them

That by the bedrooms

It was entangled,

Then, good man,

Pretend me white,

Pretend me snowy,

Pretend me chaste.

Author: Alfonsina Stroni

Figurative sense: when the author refers to the terms "white", "snowy", "nacre", she refers to the chastity that a man wants her to have, when his life has been totally contrary to chastity.

5- The meeting

I found him on the trail.

The water

did not disturb his reverie, nor did the roses open more.

Astonishment opened my soul.

And a poor woman has

her face full of tears!

He had a light song

in his careless mouth,

and when he looked at me

the song he was singing has become serious.

I looked at the path, I found it

strange and like a dream.

And in the diamond dawn

I had my face with tears!

He continued his march singing

and took my eyes…

Behind him

the salvias were no more blue and tall.

Never mind!

My soul was shaken in the air.

And although no one has hurt me,

my face is filled with tears!

Tonight he has not kept vigil

like I did by the lamp;

as he is ignorant,

his tuberose chest does not prick my desire;

but perhaps

a smell of gorse passes through your dream,

because a poor woman

has her face with tears!

She went alone and was not afraid;

hungry and thirsty she did not cry;

since I saw him cross,

my God clothed me with sores.

My mother in her bed prays

her confident prayer for me.

But I will maybe forever

have my face with tears!

Author: Gabriela Mistral

Figurative meaning: in this poem an encounter is described but at no time is it specifically said what or whom it found. It could be a man, a bird (a bad omen?), A disease or death. In any case, it was something unpleasant, which brought tears to the author.

References

1. Figurative sense. Recovered from definicionabc.com.
2. Ghost. Recovered from Buscapoemas.net.
3. Poems by Jaime Gil Biedma. Recovered from poesi.as.
4. You want me white. Recovered from delos-poetas.com.
5. The turtle. Recovered from poemas-del-alma.com.
6. The encounter. Recovered from mediavoz.com.