Figurative Language

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This poem, while being very interesting, did not have a copious amount of figurative language. The reader was able to discern one example of figurative language from the poem, which was, “Two loves I have comfort and despair, which like two spirits do suggest me still…” This example is a simile, because the author uses the world like to compare the two loves, comfort and despair, to two spirits. On a, somehow, even deeper level of literary language the whole poem is one huge, in a way, metaphor as the poem describes these two spirits, or voices, in which the evil spirit, a woman “colour’d ill”, is trying to woo the good spirit, a man “right fair”, to switch to the “dark side” so that the author can go to hell. This is a situation in which
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