The rain how it fell; the cadaver smell <span>My eyes transfixed on that pit of Hell, </span> Vapid flesh foul, horrendously bland. <span>But why this carnage, I don’t understand; </span>
Retching, gagging, holding back the bile. <span>I turn from the evil to rest for a while, </span> <span>From decomposing mothers, fathers and child; </span> Satan’s work, merciless, callously wild.
<span>Laid out in graves grotesquely remorse, </span> Lucifer’s carnage has taken its course <span>In a dance of death, contorted and thin, </span> Thousands of bodies, bound together by skin.
Now sixty years passed, will I ever forget. <span>That day when in person, with Satan I met; </span> He showed me firsthand his evil, his sin. Flames of contempt still burn deep within.
<span>Wise men instruct us ‘we must never, forget’, </span> <span>Upon the memory of them, ‘let the sun never set’; </span> <span>For six million Jews paid the ultimate cost, </span> <span>I know, I was there, at the great Holocaust. </span><span>Holocaust - Poem by Alf Hutchison</span>
Explanation: As you know, a metaphor is acomparison between things that are not related with each other at first sight, that is why that In the given excerpt from Act II of "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, we can see the use of metaphors to compare and describe dreams (by comparing them to ambition and shadow: "Which dreams, indeed, are ambition" and "A dream itself is but a shadow") and ambition (by comparing it to a shadow's that can be: "and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow". Hope this helps.
