Editing Metaphor (section)

===As style in speech and writing===

As a characteristic of speech and writing, metaphors can serve the poetic imagination. This allows [[Sylvia Plath]], in her poem "Cut", to compare the blood issuing from her cut thumb to the running of a million soldiers, "[[Redcoat (British army)|redcoats]], every one"; and enabling [[Robert Frost]], in "The Road Not Taken", to compare a life to a journey.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.sylviaplathforum.com/thread2.html |title= Cut |publisher=Sylvia Plath Forum |access-date= 4 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sylviaplathforum.com/index.shtml |title= Sylvia Plath Forum: Home page|website=www.sylviaplathforum.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100912170625/http://www.sylviaplathforum.com/index.shtml |archive-date=12 September 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.html |title= 1. The Road Not Taken. Frost, Robert. 1920. Mountain Interval |publisher= Bartleby.com |access-date= 4 March 2012}}</ref>

Metaphors can be implied and extended throughout pieces of literature.