Literature Homework

 As a teenager, I make mistakes, take wrong decisions, and choose wrong pathways that I certainly will regret later. After reading the poem “Metaphor” by Eve Merriam I felt that I could actually relate my life to the words that filled those stanzas. I learned that it is OKAY to take wrong life passages and to make wrong decisions, but regretting your choices can lead you to the wrong passages in life. Eve’s poem convinced me that regretting the past will change neither the present nor the future. So instead of pitching those words into stanzas, she used an extended metaphor that can easily be strained into our imagination to understand her point in a better and clearer way. Eve expressed and symbolized each new morning and each new day like a white fresh sheet. A blank sheet to fill up, a new opportunity to seize, and a new day to make the best of is rewarded to us. When the night comes, it folds the paper and turns all the decisions made to history. Get ready for another new morning, another sheet, and a whole bunch of new events to fill the new day with. Eve Merriam's poem Metaphor gave me that lift up of optimism that we all need to embrace our lives and move on with fresh starts every day.