In "Garden of My Childhood," Chang's childhood garden is a metaphor for China.
Explanation:
A metaphor is the literary figure of speech that enables writers to use a word or phrase for an object or action, but which is not literally applicable in reality. Kuangchi C. Chang's poem "Garden of My Childhood" is a poem about the author's memories about his homeland China. He recounts how he had lived his earlier years in complete bliss, with "<em>no wish to run</em>". He recounts how he had been asked to run away during the invasion from "<em>a horde on the march no Great Wall can halt</em>". He uses metaphor for his childhood garden to represent China.
The Cambridge Dictionary describes a metaphor as "an expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics." The main purpose of this literary device is to make a comparison between the two subjects based on their similarities.
In "Garden of My Childhood," Chang's childhood garden is a metaphor for China.
Complex sentences have one or more dependent (sometimes called subordinate) clauses. A dependent clause is a part of a sentence that would not make sense or would be incomplete by itself. B is an example of a complex sentence, because it has both an independent (I read an old magazine) and a dependent clause (As I waited for my appointment). C is not a complex sentence because it is made up of one independent clause. Hope this helps a little! :)
