Answer: a great example is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem called success
Explanation:
Percy has to escape from Hade's kingdom, Percy came to Hades because Hades had imprisoned Percy's mother, and Hades wanted to keep Percy, and Percy has only three pearls and he also had two friends with him so he decides that he'd leave his mother because if he stayed and his mother go she'd never forgive him.
Based on the line given above from the poem "Tattoo" written by Gregg Shapiro, the poetic device or technique used in the line is metaphor. Metaphor is a poetic device that uses comparison between two unlike objects. In this line, "We" is being compared to "continents" that are worlds apart.
