How to write a metaphor that means disappearing?
Question by forserly: How to write a metaphor that means disappearing?
I have to write a poem for english that includes a metaphor. The poem is about becoming invisible. How can I write a metaphor that would mean the person is becoming invisible?
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Answer by Becca
Just think of something that disappears and add “like” to the phrase.
For example (to use a corny one),
“She slowly disappeared like a fine mist in the morning.”
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Metaphors DO NOT use like or as, so my suggestion is something along the lines of…:
S/he is the gentle morning mist, evaporating as the sun climbs in the sky, yet lingering in the atmosphere.
… mist is a good comparison to invisibility, since it doesn’t last to our vision, but it’s still there in the sky.
He/she was a colorful sunset, that gradually faded away.
He/she was a lifting fog that simply evaporated.
you’re transparent to see that neither of
He was a dream, the remembrance of him slowly fading away and gradually floating out of your grasp, the more she attempted to recollect him.
He was as inevitable as losing a needle in a haystack, without further hope…