(Me)taphors

This week at Pasteur, the students read Sylvia Plath's poem, "Metaphors." We talked at length about both metaphor and simile and spent several minutes at the beginning of the class providing examples of each. Once I felt confident that the students knew their figurative language, I asked them to write their own Metaphors poem about themselves. I urged them not to think of the poem as a linear story, but rather to think of each line as a new beginning. I told them to try and include at least 8 metaphors/similes about themselves and to express ALL aspects of who they are. Great poems!

Ms. Servin's 4th Grade Class

Me
Jeffrey M.

I am a rose growing in the earth
I am an unending road
I am a coneless ice cream
I am a fish without water
I am a car without gas
I feel like a voice is following me
I stop and turn and I see a ghostly sight
I am a voiceless person trying to speak

Me
Brenda H.

I am a dark cloud in winter.
My hair is brown as fudge.
In winter, I am a growly bear.
I am a tiger staring at leaves.
I am a ball of sunshine.
My eyes have baby blue in them.
I am a parrot trapped and squawking.
I am on stage quiet and all staring at me.

Me
Mario O.

I am a computer with all the answers in my head.
I feel as happy as the sun in July.
I am as bright as a candle.
I am as quick as a racecar racing for a cup.
I feel as though my life is an everlasting dream.
Rain is my worst enimy.
It is as dull as a gray cloud.
I feel delighted when I roam outdoors.
My light can't go out.

Myself
Gilbert D.

I am a red furious fire.
I am like a big building being destroyed.
I feel furious as the sun in spring.
I am a big tree seeing gets getting tortured in school.
I am like a furious lion going to attack.
I feel like destroying a truck.
I am as red as a big strawberry.
Then I feel as lonely as a cloud.

Mrs. Weiland's 4th Grade Class

Me
Mia R.

I am like a sweet bowl of sugar.
I am as loud as a roller coaster.
I am like a car full of gas.
Something is beating inside of me
like pumping gas inside a car.
When something rings I am scared as
a person wrestling a grizzly.
My uncle says I am like wind because
I run fast.

Me
Michelle O.

I am as loud as a giant walking.
I am as fast as a cheetah running.
I am as strong as a wrestler.
I am hidden like a mouse hiding from a cat.
I am as warm as a summer's day.
I am nice and calm like the ocean.

Me
Jasmine J.

My hair is as beautiful as horse hair.
My eyes are as brown as chocolate.
My hands are as soft as animal's skin.
At home, I am as quiet as a bird.
I am as short as a door.
Today it is cold as the North Pole.
I am as hot as the sun.

Ms. McDermott's 5th Grade Class

Metaphors
Marco L.

I am like a really blue rain.
I am like a wild puppy.
I am a really crazy cat.
I am like a bird alone in its cage.
I am like a scared mouse.
I am a book just ready to be read.
I am a sun shining bright.
I am like sand smooth as possible.

Myself
Vladimir S.

I am a tall tree.
I am a bright light.
My life is a tree in the summer.
School is a shutdown prison.
I am a leaf wandering in the wind.
I am a bored book without a subject.
My poems are a trip around the world.
I am a person without a choice.

Me
Lucero G.

I am a fast cheetah
I am mad like a bull
I am a T.V.
I am a masterpiece that is so pretty
I am a computer knowing every answer
I am in the limelight-all eyes on me
I am sweet like candy
Sometimes I am a mouse going back in its hold
My eyes are two hazel pearls

Metaphors
Sophia V.

I am a bright colored firecracker
a girl version of Jim Carey
a shapeless square in a math book
a giant marshamellow cloud
a purple chair in a white room
a bomb about to explode
I am like a breakable thread
My mouth is like a huge dictionary

Mr. Herback's 5th Grade Class

Metaphor and Simile
Silvia L.

My life is a bright lemon
I am a sad flower growing
My life is a happy Saturday
and a tiring Monday
I am like a glittering snowflake
I am a furious cheetah
I am growing like an oak tree
Just like a bird, a cloud and you

Metaphors
Jordan D.

I am a leafless tree
My life is a bright light
The suns firey rage
The sore thumb in a crowd
The laugh of a person
I am a cool summer breeze
My life is a boring book
I am like winning a prize

Metaphors
Holly K.

My heart is a big tree trunk
I am a lonely graveyard
My berries shed their tears
I provide a blue sky
I am a furious volcano
I am an exhausted elephant
I am a sure teacher
I am a relieved bicycle

Ms. Kane's 7th Grade Class

Me
Jose P.

I am as cool as the wind
My smile is brighter than the sun
When I get mad my face gets red as a tomato
My eyes are as dark as the clouds in a stormy night
I am bigger than a house
I am as fast as a puma
I can hear better than a hawk
My eyes are bigger than an owl

My Everything
Destini H.

My heart is as cold as ice
My feelings are as sensitive as a baby's soft spot
My life is like a stormy night
My intelligence is not so bright
My family fights like two dogs fighting over a t-bone steak
My head pounds like an earthquake

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Sarami A.

I am a book with no words
A human with no heartbeat
I'm beautiful inside and out
Nobody can replace me
I am like a mom without her child
As happy as the first time I saw you
As sad as the day I lost you

Mrs. Villa's 6th Grade Class

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Diana B.

I am a book barely beginning
A wave in the ocean
A bright light in a dark room
I am a red rose growing in a garden of weeds
Sweet yet sour
Unwanted like a puppy
Yet loved like a toy
I am the salt in your tea
The rivers from your eyes
I am not sad like a widow
but as happy as your smile

My Life
Isacc L.

I am bright and full of light on the outside
but dark and gloomy on the inside
My parents fight like Tazmanian devils
My anger is like a firecracker ready to explode
and trapped in a deeb hole you can't get out of
I keep traveling from one place to another
When will my struggle end?

The Puzzle
Marisa T.

I am a dark winter night
A bomb ticking, waiting to explode
I am a bear protecting her cub
A blue butterfly trying to escape
Silent as a book
A puzzle not yet put together
Pieces I didn't even know I had
Crushed into many small parts

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Jose G.

I am like a cigarette without a smoker
I am shining like time square
I am like a wolf without its pack
I am a misfit in this world