Module 4: How Do I Love Thee?

I decided to look directly at figurative language, which is my content area topic. When I began to “peel the layers away” as we were asked to do for this assignment, I found at its roots “a single word” which can also be translated as a single thought or idea; in other words, something undeveloped, but full of potential. This abstraction of figurative language reminded me of how a tiny seed eventually blossoms to become a beautiful flower. I have explained this analogy below in three different ways – a diagram, pictures, and a poem.

Diagram:

Figurative language --> Verbal image --> Descriptive words --> A single word

 

A beautiful flower -----------------------------------------------> A single seed

Pictures:

a single seed

a beautiful flower

hands (a single word)

Hands, that with each new line and each new wrinkle, have a story to tell. (figurative language)

Poem:

                FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

                                               

One does not plant a field of sunflower seeds

For the pleasure of looking at the seeds.

They want to experience the beauty of the flower –

See it sprouting,

     Blossoming,

          Dancing,

               Fragrant.

One does not voice an idea or a thought

For the pleasure of speaking mere words.

They want to convey the splendor of the thought –

Make it sprout,

     Blossom,

          Dance,

               Entice every sense.

Life originates in the seed;

It twitches with modest words.

But both express beauty and worth

When they begin to flower.